Montenegro
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Employability

Career Guidance Benefits for ALL

The career guidance program has been introduced in Educational System of Montenegro and wider having in mind the importance it has for students, young people, employed and unemployed in their career path development. The career guidance defines as a chain of activities that enable individuals in each stage of their life to assess their capacities, competences and interests. This helps them to make the right decisions about further education, training and qualifications and to manage their choices in terms of education and preparation for the labor market.

The Factsheets produced base on the existing laws in education and wider, strategies for long-life career orientation, interviews with stakeholders and other providers of career guidance, experiences from implementation in schools and the career guidance implementation for other target groups.

The benefits of the career guidance implementation in schools are numerous: students have the possibility to learn about self-knowledge, self-awareness. They learn how to write CV, a motivation letter, how to use ICT, how to make a job interview, how to use the job search technique and search the labour market information; and how to use the Euro pass documents, how to make a decision and so on.

Schools have the support from the policy level of the educational system: Ministry of Education, especially from Euro pass and Euro guidance center which is part of the Ministry; then the Bureau for Education Service, Centre for Vocational Education, CIPS - center for information and professional counselling, the Career guidance center at University, NVO and others providers for career guidance.

Career management skills development has a great importance especially in this time of the large changes in the labor market, this time of the pandemic and the huge consequences of it.

In addition to analyzing the current situation of the career guidance, these factsheets emphasize the importance of the cooperation of all participants involved in this process (students, teachers, parents, school management, and representatives of the stakeholders, local community and so on). Only together, we can help young people and adult to find the adequate occupation and build the successful career path.

Factsheets:

https://openspace.etf.europa.eu/blog-posts/career-guidance-albania-kazakhstan-montenegro-north-macedonia-serbia-turkey-and-ukraine

Lifelong Guidance in Finland:

https://cica.org.au/wp-content/uploads/25493_Lifelong_guidance_in_Finland.pdf

Guidance in Denmark:

https://www.euroguidance.eu/guidance-system-in-denmark    

Career Guidance in Montenegro:

http://www.europasscrnagora.me/euroguidance/index.php/sta-je-euroguidance 

www.zzzcg.me/cips

www.karijenicentar.ac.me

https://www.zid.org.me/

Comments (9)

Florian Kadletz
Open Space Member • 5 years ago

Dear Vida, thank you very much for highlightening the importance of career education throughout compulsory and post-compulsory education. In terms of outreach this is for sure the way to go for all countries. Thanks for your great cooperation!

khaled abulaban
Open Space Member • 5 years ago

"in each stage" of their life to assess their capacities .. what stage can we be considered as “turning point” for them? .. the most influential in choosing the right decision according to their abilities? .. best regards for providing us with such special information

Vidosava Kascelan
Open Space Member • 5 years ago

Dear Khaled, thank you for the question. Also, I think that early education is very important and decisive for the overall development of each individual.

Florian Kadletz
Open Space Member • 5 years ago

Dear Khaled, thanks for your comment! The suggestion is to move away from focusing career guidance on transition points but start building individual's capacity to know about their strengths, interests, aspirations and what it needs to get their from early childhood onwards. The concept of career education and career management skills development builds on that idea to strengthen individuals capacity over a long period of time, so to say focusing also on personal development, on social and emotional competence. An ELGPN tool sheds light on that: http://www.elgpn.eu/publications/elgpn-concept-note-cms

khaled abulaban
Open Space Member • 5 years ago

Dear Florian Kadletz, thanks for your comment
But I think at some point we have to start separating academic-oriented groups (Head) from those concerned with professional skills (Hands) and maybe at some point we find a third category unsure of their suitable bath and need more support to determine their tendencies and abilities, I think it is the hardest category to deal with at all stages of providing career guidance services.
The most important point is not only to determine their inclinations and abilities, but there are real opportunities offered to them based on future plans of employers? or how to start setting up small entrepreneurship based on successful planning? of course, to be matching with their abilities.
The most important element of delivering career guidance is “FACTS”

Florian Kadletz
Open Space Member • 5 years ago

Dear Khaled, very true, next to personal development the exposure to the world of work and information and counselling about concrete opportunities based on solid LMI is key. It is that combination that really supports young people and career management skills programmes cover both. Can you share any good practice from your country with regards to what you explained (facts)? Best wishes Florian

khaled abulaban
Open Space Member • 5 years ago

Unfortunately, on the end of the process of delivering career guidance becomes only “Marketing” of courses and specialties for most of educational institutions to “increase” the number of enrollments (business methods) which will increase “just” the output of education processes without caring about the outcomes according to the actual needs of the labour market in the short term, the effect and impact is increasing of unemployment and disrupt growth in the local economy in the long term, which is currently happening in most developing countries.
What I meant by “FACTS” is that the target groups are given “actual opportunities” or “not” and that they are realistic in their choices.

Florian Kadletz
Open Space Member • 5 years ago

Very good point and unfortunately too often the case! Common standards for practitioners and especially ethical standards help address this issue, but the risk is there. The focus must be the individual, career guidance must not be misunderstood as recruitment task.

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