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(Frankie) #1

Method evaluation


Advantages:



  • evinces personal and professional competence and experience, and how to
    transfer them into the existing social context;

  • supports clients to face changes in the world of work, and in an efficient
    career management;

  • lays stress on the clarification of the client’s professional project and action
    plan;

  • requires active involvement and voluntary commitment;

  • allows evaluation and recognition of acquisitions related to work, training,
    and social life;

  • contributes to the identification of the unexplored client’s potential;

  • insists upon positive aspects supporting the elaboration of the professional /
    personal project;

  • realizes the correlation between professional environment / labour market and
    personal characteristics;

  • allows the reorganization of the beneficiary’s professional priorities, the use
    of qualities, strengths, advantages in negotiation for employment or career
    choice;

  • helps the management of personal resources in view of choosing a career;

  • renders changes more familiar by managing their anticipation and
    administration;

  • determines a proactive behaviour by identifying training pathways or
    acquisition recognition and validation procedures.


Disadvantages:



  • formalized practice;

  • despite the numerous efforts made to analyse beneficiaries’ competences
    through formal and non-formal means, the synthesis report focuses on the
    formal aspects that can be tracked in certificates and diplomas;

  • requires a large amount of work and time on behalf of the counsellor to apply
    evaluation instruments, interpret results and draw up the report;

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