● a close cooperation with university and study course guidance/career service2.4.2.1 Offers to provide Career Guidance by the Federal Employment Agency (BA)
● Service and benefits for young people and youth adults
● A team of career counsellors supports young people in vocational choice during
vocational training and the beginning of career
● Counsellor teams are mentoring high school graduates in study course guidance
and study qualification
● The BA provides orientation about career opportunities and answers questions
about career and study choice
● It offers personal interviews as well as interviews at schools and other
institutions
● Financial support of vocational training under certain requirements2.5 Greece
The 2 main areas that Career Guidance appears are in the Labour Market Sector and in the
Education Sector. The methods of the main organizations, responsible for Career Counsel-
ling and Guidance are presented below.
2.5.1 Labour’s Sector
Κ.P.Α. -Ο.Α.Ε.D
The programs are carried out by seven peripheral administrations, by the 114 Local Serv-
ices and Occupational Services, whose mission is to place unemployed people into the
labour market and to match the job offer and the job demand in Greece. In places where
the Organization does not have services, it entrusts its work to many Correspondents, who
work in small municipalities and communes. A significant improvement of the level of serv-
ices is expected through the function of the Occupational Services –K.P.A, according to the
President Decree which is about to be published. After reconsidering the role of the Occu-
pational Services and after considering the contemporaneous condition of the labour mar-
ket and the methods and possibilities which are offered by technology nowadays, O.A.E.D.
made a necessary intervention. This intervention agrees with the decisions of the Council
of Employment and Social Affair Ministers of the Countries-Members of European Union
about the alteration of Occupational Services. As a result, they will be able to deal with the
new challenges which are related to the globalization of the economy, to the increase of
competition, to the new technology, to the new structure of occupational relationships and
to the increase of unemployment percentages.