The key innovations in career guidance on labour market

Introduction. In a modern dynamic society, new vocations and fields of activity are constantly emerging. The goal of the modern vocational education, information and counselling is to enable the individual to develop a career in the whole life course, full of changes and events. Former approaches have proved inadequate; therefore, new ways are being sought. Therefore, it is necessary to design approaches in managing careers, including those with special needs, and which counselling approaches for a career are best suited to an increasingly dynamic labour market. Aim and task. The basic research goal is to find all those innovations in theories and practices that appear in newer career guidance and career counselling approaches. For that purpose,, an longitudinal analysis of articles, studies, guidelines has been carried out that are accessible on web portals. Thus, the most important innovations that are often found in recent theories and practices are revealed. Results. System theories and constructivism in career guidance represent an urgent response to changes in a dynamic society, but still include some parts of previous theories and practices. Meaning, the present essentially implies the accumulating and merging of previous approaches that deal with individuals in a way that individuals become agents who manage their own careers. The most important innovations are: learning as the individual's own project, narrative approach with storytelling, reconstruction of self-esteem, self-determination, nonlinear career, empathy in counselling, decision-making autonomy, no directed counselling. So new constructivist perspective continues to influence career theory and practice. Conclusions. The study shows that it is impossible to talk about the best universal theories or approaches in the field of career guidance and career counselling, but about the most usable ones, in the given circumstances. The development of practices in career guidance and counselling is most influenced by psychology, and recently also by social-cognitive psychology, but the influence of other disciplines, such as sociology, ethics, economics and others, is increasing. Innovations that have been identified show the integration of diverse concepts; in particular, the contextual view that appears also in other social sciences. In emphasizing the active nature of individuals as self-building, self-renewing and self-organizing system within constructivist approach, it is viewed as important underpinning for the practice which is responding to ever changing times.

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Career management of special people needs in the labour market

Economics ecology socium ◽

10.31520/2616-7107/2019.3.3-2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 11-20

Author(s):

Katarina Kravos

Keyword(s):

Special Needs ◽

Labour Market ◽

Career Guidance ◽

Self Determination ◽

Career Counselling ◽

Career Management ◽

Competence Model ◽

Career Interventions ◽

Inclusive Approach ◽

Medical Paradigm

Introduction. The paper reviews the literature on characteristics of labour market and its effect on career of people with special needs. While independent career guidance and management remains difficult for people with special needs, because of the rapid changes in the modern labour market, the evidence shows that their career remains a challenge mostly because of the way they are viewed – they are often viewed through their deficits, disabilities, and illnesses. Aim and tasks. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a new, inclusive perspective in career counselling of persons with special needs and their careers. By abandoning the medical paradigm in career of people with special needs, we focus on advantage competences model and self-determination. Results. It is shown that today’s labour market has become unstable and unpredictable, which can be proven by an increased development of atypical ways of employment. The changes in today’s labour market have also affected the careers of people with special needs, who are additionally faced with possible illnesses, disorders, and other barriers. Therefore, we may expect that they may require more help from career advisers and different approaches in counselling. In addition, characteristics of today’s labour market suggest that we must focus on different career understanding – not as a guidance, as it cannot be further predicted, but as management, to become our own life/career agent. It should not be any different in people with special needs. The area of employing people with special needs has not yet abandon the medical paradigm, which is a barrier for their career management. Thus the new inclusive approach has been developed – an advantage competence model. In the model competences of people with special needs, there are a basis for career interventions, for finding a prospective area of career, where they are more likely to succeed. The model supports self-determination, which is recognized as a way of improving one’s self-esteem, a positive career identity, autonomy, maintain or improve quality of life and person’s active participation. Conclusions. Although the guidance and management of career is a challenge nowadays, it should be viewed as a positive challenge, which can nurture and develop our curiosity, flexibility, optimism, and gaining knowledge. The growing needs for labour market knowledge urge people to constantly gain competences, therefore, they can become managers of their own careers. Nevertheless, this process of career management should not be any different with people with special needs. By using advantages competence model, we rely on strengths every person has and builds on the potential of their independent career managing.

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SUPPORTING THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE POLISH LABOR MARKET

Educational Analytics of Ukraine ◽

10.32987/2617-8532-2020-2-41-49 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-49

Author(s):

Anna Ziętek ◽

Keyword(s):

Vocational Education ◽

Labour Market ◽

Social Life ◽

Local Community ◽

Disabled Persons ◽

Career Counselling ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Social Welfare System ◽

Development Plans ◽

The Individual

The article presents a concept of social approach towards individual support for persons with disabilities, which aims at levelling their opportunities in social and professional life. It suggests the introduction of tasks related to vocational activation and availability through co-operation and support in such areas as education, employment and social welfare system. It is pointed out that the implementation of changes and improvement of vocational education will enable persons with disabilities to prepare and adapt to employment and social life. The article presents solutions for improving the cooperation of individuals and supporting organizations in performing tasks involving employment and integration in the local community. The cooperation of parties involved and local integration is a significant element in the suggested model which is to improve the process of employment and activity of disabled persons. The article indicates the need to introduce more flexibility in the process of vocational preparation with the labour market and to increase the level of awareness of individual problems persons with disabilities face. It shows that introducing changes and improving existing solutions related to the system will increase the participation of persons with disabilities in professional and social life. The article presents a model solution of vocational education adjusted to persons with disabilities, taking into account patronage specialist workshops. It suggests implementing an additional career counselling subject in the curriculum, which by achieving objectives and carrying out teaching contents, would enable persons with disabilities to create individual career development plans. Persons with disabilities, being the subject of the functioning of schools and workplaces, should have the possibility of self-fulfilment and fulfilment of their vocational development. Vocational preparation of persons with disabilities requires strengthening with new elements and activities. It requires the implementation of solutions in the field of assistance and availability as well as support based on the individual needs of persons with disabilities, which will increase employment and activity in the labour market.

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OUTPLACEMENT MODEL FOR EMPLOYEES CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION

SOCIETY INTEGRATION EDUCATION Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference ◽

10.17770/sie2020vol5.4843 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 253

Author(s):

Baiba Rokjane ◽

Vija Dislere

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Personnel Management ◽

Career Guidance ◽

Home Economics ◽

Career Counselling ◽

Expert Evaluation ◽

Career Counsellor ◽

Study Programme ◽

Wide Range ◽

Expert Assessments

This article addresses the problem of providing career guidance to professionals who are expected to be made redundant. The aim of this thesis is to develop and to do expert-evaluation of the Outplacement Model for Employees Career Promotion (hereinafter referred to as “Model”). The study was developed in the Latvia University of Agriculture, the Institute of Education and Home Economics within the Master study programme Career Counsellor. An expert evaluation of the Model was carried out with the participation of 5 experts in the field of career counselling and personnel management. In general, expert assessments of the overall Model rating (7-9 points) are close to the maximum possible rating (10 points). The provision of Outplacement services in Latvia has a wide range of benefits to the employee, employer and society as a whole. The developed Model will help employees to become more aware of their abilities and return to the labour market soon, after leaving their previous job. The Model can be used by career guidance providers for organizations and employers, career counsellors, and companies providing outplacement services.

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The Influence of Enterprises with Participation of Foreign Capital on the Labour Market Situation in Poland

Olsztyn Economic Journal ◽

10.31648/oej.2901 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 45-57

Author(s):

Dorota Sobol

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Foreign Capital ◽

Foreign Direct Investments ◽

Special Economic Zones ◽

Labour Market Situation ◽

Market Situation ◽

Scientific Project ◽

The Individual ◽

Economic Zones

The aim of the article is to present the influence on the labour market of enterprises with participation offoreign capital in special economic zones (SEZ) in Poland. The research utilised selected results of the surveys conducted among enterprises with participation of foreign capital operating in all Polish special economic zones for the scientific project called Foreign direct investments in the special economic zones of Poland'. These findings are complemented by opinions from management boards of all the zones in Poland concerning the influence of the foreign direct investments (FDI) located in the individual zones on the labour market of the region in which they operate.

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‘Conduct of conduct’ or the shaping of ‘adequate dispositions’? Labour market and career guidance in four European countries

Critical Social Policy ◽

10.1177/0261018310385440 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 77-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Isabelle Darmon ◽

Coralie Perez

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Career Guidance ◽

European Countries

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News production theory and practice

Pragmatics ◽

10.1075/prag.18.1.04hou ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 59-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Tom Van Hout ◽

Geert Jacobs

Keyword(s):

Process Analysis ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Computer Assisted ◽

Press Releases ◽

News Production ◽

News Reports ◽

Business News ◽

Writing Practices ◽

The Individual ◽

And Control

This paper considers notions of agency, interaction and power in business news journalism. In the first part, we present a bird’s eye view of news access theory as it is reflected in selected sociological and anthropological literature on the ethnography of news production. Next, we show how these theoretical notions can be applied to the study of press releases and particularly to the linguistic pragmatic analysis of the specific social and textual practices that surround their transformation into news reports. Drawing on selected fieldwork data collected at the business desk of a major Flemish quality newspaper, we present an innovative methodology combining newsroom ethnography and computer-assisted writing process analysis which documents how a reporter discovers a story, introduces it into the newsroom, writes and reflects on it. In doing so, we put the individual journalist’s writing practices center stage, zoom in on the specific ways in which he interacts with sources and conceptualize power in terms of his dependence on press releases. Following Beeman & Peterson (2001), we argue in favor of a view of journalism as ‘interpretive practice’ and of news production as a process of entextualization involving multiple actors who struggle over authority, ownership and control.

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Gender and Social Security: Some Lessons from Europe

European Journal of Social Security ◽

10.1023/a:1021328903833 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 227-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Labour Market ◽

Old Age ◽

Gender Inequality ◽

Sickness Benefit ◽

Men And Women ◽

Dual Earner ◽

The Family ◽

Gender Neutral ◽

The Individual

Different social security schemes affect men and women differently. This article compares the family or single earner model with the individual or dual earner model and examines their impact on gender inequality. However, even where social security schemes are designed to be gender neutral, when applied in a context that is systematically structured by gender, it points out that they will have a different impact on men and women. The article examines the ways in which supposedly gender-neutral rules, in sickness benefit, survivors' pensions and old age pensions have affected men and women in Sweden and concludes that, if countries wish to achieve equal economic outcomes for men and women, they will need to introduce measures to equalise men's and women's commitments to the home and the labour market, and to enable women to attain higher-paid jobs on the same basis as men.

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CORRELATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ SELF-EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY AND THE TIME PERSPECTIVE OF THE INDIVIDUAL

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University ◽

10.21603/2078-8975-2016-2-151-155 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 151-155

Author(s):

S. A. Yudin

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

University Students ◽

Time Perspective ◽

Basic Research ◽

Educational Process ◽

The Self ◽

Educational Activity ◽

Self Organization ◽

Modern Education ◽

The Individual

The paper considers various approaches to studying the self-organization of students’ educational activity, the assumption about the interrelation of self-organization of educational activity and time perspective of the individual is made. The importance of self-organization of educational activity in the modern education system of higher education institutions comes to light. Stages of formation of self-organization and possible difficulties which a person can face are sorted out. Results of basic research of the time perspective and self-organization of university students are stated. The interrelation between commitment and alloted time is defined, as well as regularity, emotional coloring of time, structure of time and feeling of time. The received results specify the possible directions of the organization of forms of psychological support of university students having problems with self-organization of time in the educational process.

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