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Career services in Estonia
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•career education•career counselling•career information
It contains
Where? •educational organisations•community sector•private sector
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•face to face and distance sessions• individually or group
How?
Methods •assessment•self-assessment•counselling interviews•work search programmes
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•Ministry of Education and Research is responsible for providing service among young people in education.•Ministry on Social Affairs is responsible for providing service among adult people ( unemployed, jobseekers and employed)
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Service provision•In general education Professional Career is cross-curricular theme•Professional Career is supported by non-formal education•Higher education institutions have established career centres on their own initiative and without any central regulation.
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Since 2005, there are three professional standards for career practitioners in Estonia: career counsellor, career information specialist and career co-ordinator.
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Tasks of a career councelor are co-operation with regional youth information and counselling centres (YICCs) and class teachers, supporting subject teachers in the implementation of the cross-curricular theme.
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Career information specialist. The aim of the work of a career information specialist is helping to fulfil the targetgroups’ need for information concerning education, labour market and professions.
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Career co-ordinator is a specialist whose main activity is planning and coordinatingcareer training in school. A school career co-ordinator may work in general education schools, vocational educational institutions and high schools.
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Quality assurance in providing services.During the programme called “Development of Career Services in Estonia 2004-2007” have been composed an important document- “Standard of counselling youth” containing several criteria of providing career services.
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Providing career services in vocational schools is a new trend.The reason of it is high level of dropouts, dissatisfaction with jobs and the fact that career services in general educatoin is insufficient.
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Aims of the new programme “Development of Career Services in Estonia 2008-2011” are•Developing the methods of career services •Composing the training system for career practitioners•Providing career services•Composing the quality assessment system of career services•Coordinating and integrating of different career services with principles of lifelong learning
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