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CareerGuide for Schools

• Nora Gikopoulou
• Network for Career Guidance in schools
• 2005 2008
• Comenius III action

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Partners

• Ellinogermaniki Agogi -GR(coordinator)
• Alba Graduate Business school-GR
• Newman College of Higher Education UK
• INSEAD-FR
• Technical University of Dresden-DE
• University of Louis Pasteur- FR
• Vytatus Magnus University- LIT
• Technical University of Sofia-BL
• Institute for Future Studies OS
• IPA.SA RO
• Orientum Career Counsellors Company - GR
• Kaunas Maironis Gymnasium-LIT
• Alfa Omega Communications-EST

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What is Career Guidance or Career Counseling

• Assist individuals of any age
• Educational, training and occupational choices
• Define the strengths and weaknesses
• Make the right choice
• Manage their careers

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Steps

• Personal development
• Educational and occupational information
• Assessment
• Career Decision
• Job interview
• Placement
• Career change

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Networks main aim

• Promotion of career education
• Network of Schools across Europe
• CareerGUIDE Web Portal
• Main target group
• Career Counselors
• Policy makers for career guidance in schools
• ? Bridging the gap between school and work

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Networks Objectives

• To bring career guidance to the education policy
  front and contribute to the upgrading of teaching
  and learning career development.
• To explore the best practices on the
  implementation of career guidance education in
  Europe through extended surveys
• To offer specialized support and training
  opportunities to educators of career guidance in
  schools throughout Europe.
• To establish horizontal links between school
  society
• To promote the European Dimension in career
  guidance reinforcing long-term mobility in Europe

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Methodology of schools network

• Each partner choose at least five schools from
  his country
• Forward to schools the research material
• Teachers-counselors implement and evaluate the
  new activities
• Researchers upgrade and improve the activities

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CareerGUIDE status

• Portal
• Schools Network about 50 schools
• Research activities
• 1st International conference
• 1st Newsletter November of 2006
• Career Day

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1st International Conference, Athens, 4th of
November 2006
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Main Topics

• Career Guidance
• A European Dimension
• Career Guidance policies in Greece and Europe
• Connection between School and Labor Market
• CareerGuide Network
• A different approach
• -presentation of an exercises implementation
  at Ellinogermaniki Agogi

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outcome

• ? Over 100 European and Greek scientists
  participated
• Promotion of CareerGUIDE network
• Development of schools network
• Activation of teachers, counselors and parents
• Analysis of counselors needs for new relative
  activities (conferences, seminars, training,
  workshops)

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Some moments of the conference
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Newsletter
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Newsletter Main topics

• What exactly is Career Counseling
• CareerGUIDE for Schools Project
• Our vision
• Career Guidance at schools
• Career Guide Network
• Working groups thematic areas
• Schools network
• Career Guide Portal
• Annual Conference 2006
• A trial exercises implementation

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Career Day

• 21 of April 2007
• Ellinogermaniki Agogi

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Career day

• for students
• 7 job categories
• 40 different jobs
• 80 professionals
• Discuss with students for their job and their
  professional life

• for parents
• Representatives from the political authority
• Representatives from universities
• Representatives from the labour market
• Career Counsellors
• discuss with parents for the career guidance

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Some moments of the Career Day
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Future plans for dissemination

• 2nd International Conference 2007
• Newsletters
• Career Counsellors training seminars