CAREER GUIDANCE IN NORTH MACEDONIA in support of wider employment, social, youth, education and training policy goals

Career guidance can represent a strong contribution to young people's pathway to productive employment and successful career. It can make their school-to-work transition (SWT) more effective and  it can help them advance and diversify their skills. Career guidance can be of great importance for working adults or persons looking for work.

The concept and practice of career guidance includes a potentially broad range of activities including but not limited to counselling, training, mentoring, and provision of relevant information. Career guidance work can be done individually, as a group activity, in a classroom, in a real work environment, in the digital space.  It extends over a number of areas, such as personal skills and aptitudes, job searching methods, understanding labor markets realities and trends, career management skills, life-long learning and so forth.

Career guidance work can be conducted by a potentially large number of societal actors, including public institutions, civil society organizations (CSOs), as well as the business sector. Traditionally, schools and national employment agencies are expected to lead the systematic public sector provision of career guidance. However, a large number of private organizations, such as CSOs, consultancies, training providers, as well as employers themselves, are increasingly interested in career guidance.

The fact sheet CAREER GUIDANCE IN NORTH MACEDONIA in support of wider employment, social, youth, education and training policy goals, produced by ETF, provides an overview of career guidance policies, systems, and practices in North Macedonia.

 The fact sheet maps the key legislative and strategic documents, looks into the practices of the key national  institutions in the fields of education, employment, and youth, as well as into the practices of other relevant stakeholders, and it discusses the overall situation with the provision of career guidance in the country, the related challenges and opportunities. Finally, it provides several cases of good practice.