National spotlight: Career Guidance in employment: experiences from Slovenia

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National spotlight Career Guidance in
employment experiences from Slovenia

• ICAS final seminar, Ljubljana 8-9 June 2007
• Saa Niklanovic
• Employment Service of Slovenia

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Guidance services in ESS

• INTERNAL
• Informational and motivational seminars
• and events (obligatory)
• Individual employment advising (employment plan)
• Individual career counselling
• Job-search workshops
• Group career counselling workshop
• cca 300 employment advisors and 38 career
  counsellors

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Guidance services in ESS - continued

• EXTERNAL
• Job clubs (57 success rate)
• Programme for young drop outs (PUM)
• Programme for UE without qualification (ICTEM)
• Programmes for UE over 50
• Etc.

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To whom serves guidance?

• (traditional definitions of guidance)
• Users Policy Management

Guidance
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What are the outcomes of guidance?

• USERS
• Simple to measure
• -Satisfaction of users
• -Opinion of users on
• outcomes
• .
• Difficult to measure
• -Quantitative evaluation
• -Qualitative evaluation

• POLICY MANAGEMENT
• Simple policy indicators
• - employment rate (etc.)
• - unemployment rate
• - targets of ESS
• (number of unemployed
• put to jobs and training)
• ?

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Changes in last 10 years and new dilemmas of
guidance

• Adviser got additional role
• Changes of legislation and regulations oblige
  unemployed for active job search.
• Search for the stategies for coping with these
  demands (obligatory formula)
• Mechanism of control?
• Advisers implement but do not accept
• Ne-zdruljivost obeh vlog? (ILO, Thuy 2001)

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Bussiness principles in EES?(Specific to
Slovenia?)

• BUSSINESS PES
• More for less yes yes
• RR yes ?
• Indicators input output
  output

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Discussions on the role of guidance in ESS in
future?

• THREAT
• Simplified indicators of PES effectiveness
• (measuring quantity not quality)
• OPPORTUNITY
• EU guidance policy
• -guidance as learning activity (career
  management skills)