● Improve employment abilities of young people and adults, stimulate their
entrepreneurship skills and permanent aspiration for learning;
● Develop social activeness of people.To succeed in achieving these aims, there was created a number of institutions that are able
to provide career counselling:
● Career centres at the biggest universities, which offer such services as
counselling for students who are making vocational choices and planning their
careers; organizing further education and internship programs within the country
and abroad; providing information on the situation in the labour market; and
helping to organise job searches;
● Regional labour market training and counselling services and labour
exchanges;
● Private consulting organisations, of which there are currently around 20, offering
such services as searching and selecting qualified specialists, conducting
personnel and management training, and providing counselling on management
issues;
● The National Resource Centre for Vocational Guidance (or Lithuanian
Euroguidance Centre), which was established in 1998 with the National Agency
for Leonardo da Vinci and which has as its main purpose the production and
dissemination of guidance material as well as supporting mobility across
Europe.Despite the fact that activities of separate institutions are regulated by the laws of the
Republic of Lithuania, by government resolutions and by ministerial orders, national system
for providing career information, guidance and counselling is not working properly yet.
Career Guidance in the Education Sector
Each general education school has a person responsible for career guidance, usually a
headmaster or assistant of headmaster. Compulsory level schools can employ an educa-
tional psychologist, though not all of them are able to find or afford such specialists, espe-
cially in rural areas.
Career guidance began to be given more importance in 1998, when schools introduced
specialized curricular pathways. Students became more motivated to seek guidance sup-
port as their choices had an impact on their future educational and occupational trajectories.
Such guidance could be from obtained outside the school, in such places as:
● The Territorial Labour Market Training and Counselling Services (TMLTCS,
under the remit of the Ministry of Social Security and Labour);