Digital transitions in lifelong guidance: rethinking careers practitioner professionalism: a CareersNet expert collection

This collection is a step towards updating Cedefop's work on professionalising career guidance since the publication of 'Professionalising career guidance: practitioner competences and qualification routes in Europe' [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 95.530] over 10 years ago. The current papers consist of diverse authored contributions from independent CareersNet guidance experts and contributors to Cedefop's 2020 CareersNet meeting. Changing career guidance delivery and career learning contexts, responding to widespread labour market changes and digital transformation of services, lead to new challenges, developments, and opportunities. Papers focus on the broad theme of professionalising the career guidance workforce and the particular competences fit for the digital and wider societal context. Not all authors place direct focus on technology-related themes. Attention is also paid to developments prior to, surrounding, or triggered by, the [COVID-19] pandemic crisis. Theoretical/conceptual and overview papers are included, while several present illustrations of standards in national/regional guidance systems or particular training or service developments.

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The papers are as follows: Introduction / Cynthia M. Harrison; Identifying standards for career professionalism / Raimo Vuorinen, Jaana Kettunen, Ernesto Villalba-Garcia, Cynthia Harrison; Professionalising career guidance in Greece: current and future challenges / Fotini Vlachaki; The relevance of the Estonian occupational qualification sub-framework in the field of career guidance / Margit Rammo; Digital badges for career practitioner skills validation in Italy / Giulio Iannis; Active support for the unemployed: implications of digitalisation for professionalism in career guidance / Susanne Kraatz; Career chat: the art of AI and the human interface in career development / Fusun Akkok and Deirdre Hughes; Labour market management skills among career practitioners: tackling increasing complexity / Tibor Bors Borbely-Pecze; A context-resonant quality framework for continuous career guidance professionalisation: the case of Norway / Erik Hagaseth Haug; Social and emotional skills in career guidance: a Romanian school counsellor guide / Angela Andrei; An international dimension for improved capacity building of guidance professionals / Nina Ahlroos, Graziana Boscato, Margit Rammo; Strategic competence and the transformative role of ICT in lifelong guidance / Raimo Vuorinen and Jaana Kettunen; Enhancing practitioners' skills to work in the digital context / Jaana Kettunen; Career practice education and training in Portugal: challenges during the pandemic / Helia Moura, Maria do Ceu Taveira and Sofia Marques Ramalho; Career guidance in the digital context: trends in Germany / Susanne Kraatz, Matthias Rubner and Peter Weber. Show less