Contemporary Challenges and the Reality of Career Counseling in the “School–University–Labor Market” System

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-273
Author(s):  
G. F. Shafranov-Kutsev

تهدف الدراسة الحالية إلى التعرف على دور الإرشاد الوظيفي في دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل، من خلال دراسة حالة مركز الإرشاد الوظيفي التابع للكلية الجامعية للعلوم التطبيقية بغزة، وتمثل مجتمع الدراسة في المستفيدين من خدمات المركز والمشاركين في(البرامج التدريبية، وورش العمل الإرشادية، وأيام التوظيف، ومعارض مشاريع الخريجين الإبداعية(، والبالغ عددهم (4423) مستفيد، وتم استخدام طريقة العينة العشوائية حيث بلغ عدد الاستبانات الموزعة (400) استبانة على مجتمع الدراسة، وكان عدد الاستبانات المستردة (356) استبانة بنسبة (89%)، واستخدم الباحثان المنهج الوصفي التحليلي والاستبانة كأداة للدراسة، وكذلك برنامج (SPSS) الإحصائي لتحليل البيانات واختبار صحة الفرضيات وللإجابة عن تساؤلات الدراسة. أظهرت نتائج الدراسة وجود علاقة بين الإرشاد الوظيفي والمتمثل بالخدمات المقدمة للخريجين من حيث (البرامج التدريبية، وورش العمل الإرشادية، وأيام التوظيف، ومعارض مشاريع الخريجين الإبداعية) وبين دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل، بالإضافة لوجود أثر للإرشاد الوظيفي في دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل، وقد بينت نتائج الدراسة أن خدمات الإرشاد الوظيفي المؤثرة على المتغير التابع “دمج خريجي الجامعات الفلسطينية في سوق العمل” هي (البرامج التدريبية، وأيام التوظيف، ومعارض مشاريع الخريجين الإبداعية)، أما ورش العمل الإرشادية فقد تبين أنّ تأثيرها ضعيف. وفي ضوء تلك النتائج خلصت الدراسة إلى عدة توصيات أهمها ضرورة تطوير مركز الإرشاد الوظيفي للخدمات المقدمة للخريجين بما يراعي الاحتياجات الفعلية لهم، ويساهم في رفع كفاءتهم وتعزيز فرص منافستهم في سوق العمل، وخاصة البرامج التدريبية بمجال المهارات الحاسوبية ومهارات اللغة الإنجليزية، وورش العمل الإرشادية المختصة بمجال رسم المسار المهني للخريجين. This study aimed at identifying the role of career counseling in the integration of Palestinian university graduates in the labor market. The Job Advisory Center at University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza has been taken as a case study. The study population included the beneficiaries of the services offered by the Center, and participants in its training programs, counseling workshops, recruitment days, and graduation projects exhibits. Those were 4423 participants. The study used the random sample method. The number of questionnaires distributed was 400 questionnaire forms. The number of questionnaires retrieved was356, with a return rate of 89%. The study adopted the descriptive analytical approach, and the questionnaire as a tool. The study used SPSS program for statistical data analysis and hypotheses testing, and to answer the questions of the study. The results of the study showed that there is a relationship between career counseling through the services offered to graduates in terms of training programs, counseling workshops, recruitment days, and creative graduation projects exhibits, and the integration of graduates of Palestinian universities into the labor market. There is also an impact of career counseling and the integration of graduates of Palestinian universities into the labor market. Results of the study also showed that the career counseling services that influence the dependent variable of “integration of graduates of Palestinian universities in the labor market” are training programs, recruitment days and exhibitions of creative graduates’ projects. The study found that there is an insignificant role of the counseling workshops in this regard. In light of these results, the study reached a set of recommendations. Most importantly, the study recommends the development of the services offered by the Job Advisory center to take into consideration the actual needs of graduates, and contribute to raising their competency and improving their chances of competition in the labor market. Development of training programs in computer skills and English language skills and counseling workshops in the field of career track construction are more essential in this regard.


2017 ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Urszula Jeruszka

  The text “Counseling and Social Support as Improving the Employability of Graduates of Vocational Schools” focuses on showing the causes of the low employability of graduates of vocational schools and the ways to help and support instruments for the graduates’ successful entry into the labor market. This article interprets concepts of absolute and relative employability as well as learned helplessness on the labor market, which points to the need for differentiation. The text looks at the fate of professional graduate studies as a source of information about the demand for support activities – career counseling and social support. The text moreover indicates problems corresponding not only to events occurring at one point in a person’s life, but also the processes influencing the growth of the portion of the human capital related to education. Support measures are considered in relation to decisions affecting the educational path and professional graduate (prevention) and therefore the school-induced competence of entering the labor market (prevention of the negative consequences of differences between learning outcomes and employers’ expectations).


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-120

The article deals with the challenges related to the integration of the labor market system in Bulgaria, on one hand, and the systems of education and training, on the other. Its objective is to analyze the country’s lifelong learning system and, in particular, its aspects related to the mapping, development and validation of skills. The study is aimed at identifying the impact which the aforementioned processes have on labor market skills matching. The analysis covers responsible institutions, stakeholders and partnerships, as well as the main strategies in the field of lifelong learning in Bulgaria. An overview of the measures in support of the access of individuals within active working age to continuing education has been made.


Author(s):  
Mikhail L. Kaluzhsky

The publication analyzes the phenomenon of the formation of professional networks in the virtual labor market. The aim of the work is to institutionalize the processes underlying the formation of professional networks. The initial premise is that professional networks with a multi-million audience form a special infrastructure for the virtual labor market, transforming and replacing the infrastructure of the traditional labor market. The study allowed solving the following tasks: to analyze the institutional features of the virtual labor market infrastructure, develop a classification of professional networks, identify trends and directions of their institutional development. The most important result of the study was the substantiation of the dependence of the characteristics of various types of professional networks on the needs underlying the economic behavior of different categories of participants in the labor market. Established the presence of feedback, reflecting the impact of users on the functional and features of various types of professional networks. In addition, institutional inconsistencies and the underlying causes that impede the development of these networks are highlighted. The factors determining the competitiveness of professional networks are determined through the optics of their functional matching to the expectations and needs of different categories of users. A special attention was paid to the influence of the comparative amount of transaction costs on the economic behavior of users. This factor was identified as the root cause of institutional growth and the demand for professional networks. The findings are of continuing importance for employers and users solving employment problems with the help of virtual tools, as well as for professional networks that determine the strategic priorities of institutional development. In addition, the study can be useful in developing policies for institutional regulation of the labor market, addressing career counseling and employment, as well as in the educational process (economic specialties and training areas). 


Author(s):  
Daniel Mariusz Kukla

Professional counseling for students plays an important role and support for students in the transition process from education to the labor market. However, in order to be effective, the content of consultancy services should be adapted to the real needs of students (often resulting from transformations in the education and work market). This study indicates selected challenges faced by contemporary students (future graduates) in the context of the dynamics of the labor market development but also adaptation to permanent changes in this market.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 68-81
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Nowak

In the presented article I am trying to describe the role of education and especially the role of career counselling in pursuing sustainable development education on the local labor market. Education is an extremely important factor in the lives of local societies, especially in preparing the youth to carry out their future careers. The unlimited availability of knowledge regarding the real career paths and the needs of labor market has nowadays become necessary. The consistency of vocational education with economic life and its role in management processes performed by self-government bodies justifies undertaking research on it at the local level. Researching these relations will allow me to formulate conclusions about the effectiveness of career counseling and its impact on the local labor market. The article was based on the literature on the subject, the analysis of the UN and EU legal regulations, strategic government and local government programs and statistical data.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmy Ary Goni ◽  
Heryani Agustina

Research about Implementation of Online Labor Market Information System at Social Labor and Transmigration Agency of Brebes District started from ineffectiveness of how does the system implemented in order to give a employment service.Researcher will observe the phenomenon using six indicator based on model from Van Meter and Van Horn that is standard and objectives of policy, supported resources, organizational communications, economic social and political conditions, acceptance of implementers and implementers diposition.Researcher use descriptive qualitative method with expectation to be able to observe phenomenon experienced by participant accurately and to earn more understanding about implementation of Online Labor Market Information System at Sosial Labor and Transmigration Agency of Brebes District.As result of this research, there are some problems from six indicators that  is used to observe implementation of Online Lambor Market Information System. The problems are standard and objectives of policy, supprted resources, social and economic conditions and implementers disposition. As for the effort to solve the problems has not been able to resolve it.Researcher concludes that Implementation of Online Labor Market Information System at Social Labor and Transmigration of Brebes District has not been effective if related with the indicators. Researchers suggestions are the need of strong commitment from the implementers to understand and to monitor the Implementation of Online Labor Market System.


2019 ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Valeriia Kovach

It is noted that basic processes that characterize system of labor markets are based on the principles of social development. They make possible economic and industrial activity of individuals. Features of managerial decision-making processes are considered. It is determined that the labor market system is a multilevel set of subsystems: the whole labor market of the state, the regional labor market, and the labor markets of organizations. It is proposed to present the labor market system in the form of three main elements determined by the following parameters: entry into the labor market system; process of interaction of the microsphere of the labor market with external environment takes place within the framework of regional labor market; exit from the labor market is represented by the whole labor market. It is noted that system approach allows representing of the labor market system as a structural and hierarchical formation with its structure and functions. Priority of motivational processes is determined. These processes are present both in interpersonal processes and in managerial ones. The scheme of interaction and interdependence of processes in the labor market system is developed. It is noted that each subsystem in the labor market has its own functional purpose. It is determined that the most important characteristic of the labor market as a whole system is its structure. The structure is a set of elements and connections that determine internal structure and organization of the labor market as a whole system. It is noted that the labor market has a peculiar property of infinity. The concept of “element of the labor market” is defined. It is concluded that the labor market management system includes: management goals, management methods, organizational security, information and legal support.


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