Effective Career Guidance - Career Guide

three vital steps a student should do in order to achieve a successful career and in general
a life path.
The student, at first, recognizes and accepts his personal inner and external traits. Student
makes an effort to understand himself/her self, his/her abilities and his/her skills, his/her
values and his/her motivations. This thematic area concerns the Personal Development,
one of the most substantive and difficult part of the procedure of career guidance.
After having the “information” for him/her self, student wants to learn information about
the system of education and the labor market. The education that institutions provide, the
needs of labor market, the skills required most and the main links regarding labor market
tendencies are topics that included in the second thematic area.
The last step concerns theTransition from school to the world of work and the detection of
alternatives choices and career plans. The development of career skills, the steps to make a
good decision, the construction of cv and cover letter, the preparation for a job interview and
the adaptation in new work placements, comprise the topics of the third thematic area.
The three thematic areas are presented at the table below:

TA1

Find out about yourself

    Self

   general and life skills (learning skills and competences, talents,

abilities)

   coaching(coaching, process, practice, methodology)

   personal, values, interests and motivations

TA2

Find about the job market

   job market

   Skills, experience and knowledge required for different groups of professions

   Marketable and non-marketable professions

   Easy steps how to find out the information about the job market and it’s needs

in the countries of project partners

   Proposed methodologies

TA3

How to develop your career

   Career design skills

   Work placement

   transition

● Know about yourself: In thisthematic area, the procedure of recognition of

the self aspects is the vital thematic. In this framework, practices concerning