The main advantages of the ECVET system for beneficiaries are: the possibility of
transferring acquisitions from a learning situation to another, passing from a national
formal system of learning and vocational training to another, and capitalizing on the
acquisitions of individual learning and vocational training.
At present, a competence portfolio, including a set of documents proving the possession
of the respective competence, replaces the validation file. Among the competence
evaluation methods we mention: direct observation of the activity, oral, written, and
computerized tests.
Competence screening may be done at the request of an enterprise within a training plan
or at the initiative of the employee. To this end an agreement will be signed between the
three parties: the employer, the employee and the institutional competence-screening
centre. The agreement includes the aims (jointly of employee and employer), and the way
of transmitting the synthesis report elaborated as a result of the screening.
The duration of a screening is 24 hours, divided throughout a week’s time. As regards the
infrastructure, it can be more or less formal. In case of the screening targeting
re-conversion, the procedure is based on a document called individual guidance
screening. It supplies instructions for the subject on how to analyse his/her professional
progress and the factors responsible for it, and identifies the elements making the
structure of the project.
Competence screening includes three stages:
- preliminary:
aims: motivation and voluntary involvement of beneficiary,
needs are defined and analysed,
the whole procedure is presented – rights and obligations of
beneficiary and counsellor, methods and techniques employed; - investigation:
it takes most of the time allocated to the screening,
it is an analysis of personal and professional interests, motivations,
in an interview, workshop, questionnaire, psychological test,
identifies knowledge, competences, aptitudes, possibilities of
personal and professional evolution, training needs,
subjects receive information about the professional environment
they aspire to,
personal and professional project is outlined.