FAMICO Conference, 19/11/2013 CONFERENCE FAMILY CAREER COMPASS Efficient Career Guidance Approaches...

FAMICO Conference, 19/11/2013

CONFERENCEFAMILY CAREER COMPASS

Efficient Career Guidance Approaches Supporting Parents in Guiding their Children’s

Vocational Career”

"Greek experience in guidance supporting parents in career counseling to their children”

Doukas SchoolHead of Career Counseling

Department: Maria Koutsafti


National Approach of Career Counseling & Vocational

Guidance in Greece


•Career Counseling & Vocational Guidance in Greece aims to provide help to people, at their several growth phases in order to realize their interests, to develop their capabilities and to support their participation in society.

•The National Centre of Career Counseling (E.K.E.P.) which was founded in 2000 and was responsible for the certification for the practice of Career Counseling and the scientific support, is recently merged in by the National Organization for the Certification and Career Guidance (EOPPEP).

Introduction


The newly established national authority, under the

supervision of the Minister of Education serves the need for

a strong pillar for the actions under the national policy in

the areas of Career Counseling Certification, qualification

and structures for lifelong learning.

EOPPEP


Development of the Career Counselor profile in Greece with the active contribution of SEV (Helenic Federation of Enterprises) and Scientific Expert Maria Koutsafti , Head of the STEP Department at Doukas School & Director of Career Associates

This occupational profile contains the job functions and the required knowledge, skills and competencies for exercising career counseling.

Based upon this accredited occupational profile, EOPPEP is

planning to develop standards and specifications for modularized curricula with credits. In addition this will allow the accreditation of providers of formal & non-formal education.

Also a code of ethics and a base standards by which career practitioners should abide has been developed.

Career Counseling Certification & Curricula Standards


providing scientific and technical support to the Ministry of Education in designing and implementing a National Policy on Career Counseling,

the development of communication and coordination of actions taken by private and public counseling and guidance service providers, aiming at the improvement of existing services,

networking of providers and vocational guidance professionals,

designing and implementing actions of counseling supporting the work of counselors and of lifelong support of citizens for career management,

Promoting quality information exchange between European countries on career counseling and vocational guidance issues

Through:

Seminars/Training workshops,

Meetings and Conferences targeted at Counseling and Vocational Guidance Practitioners,

Scientific material & publications,

Developing and upgrading e-tools

E.O.P.P.E.P. is responsible for:


Public Sector

University of Athens -postgraduate degree in Vocational Guidance and Counseling.

Higher School of Pedagogical and Technical Education (ASPAITE)- Specialized Degree in Counseling and Vocational Guidance

Private Sector There are several postgraduate programs, certificates and

diplomas by Private Educational Institution and Colleges.

Some Private Career Centers offer various training seminars /programs in Career Counseling.

Education -Training


Hellenic Society of Counseling and Guidance (Ε.L.Ε.S.Υ.P.) established in 1985, aims to promote, and establish the practice of career counseling and guidance in Greece.

Professional Scientific Associations


Career Services Offices for Universities & Technological Educational Institutes (TEI) provide:

• Career Guidance and sometimes Counseling services to graduates aiming to facilitate their smooth entry into the labour market.

• Information about postgraduate studies, training courses, scholarships and knowledge about employee / professional rights.

Guidance Services in Universities


The 70 Counseling and Guidance Center (KE.SY.P) which Have been founded in major towns have been reduced nowadays.

KE.SY.P mainly: • provide guidance support and information about studies, and the labor

market to students & teachers.

• provide their services to handicapped people but very few can be reached by them due to lack of equipment.

• The “Nestor” net, a PanHellenic Intranet with educational and occupational information allow access only to the specialized members of KE.SY.P.

The School Guidance Offices (GRASEP) which support the implementation of guidance in the schools, have been eliminated

Guidance Services in Education


The institution of Vocational Guidance has been incorporated to the Greek national education in the sense that is an additional item in the curriculum involving specific activities for which the students are not marked.

Specifically, Vocational Guidance is “taught” at High-school level (Grade C:1 hour per week) and at Unified Lyceum (Grade A’: 1

hour per week, 2nd semester), by teachers with poor training in Career Counseling & Guidance.

Implementation of the Educational Guidance Institution in the Classroom


Other bodies, also, offer Career Counseling & Vocational Guidance services

Presently, there are only seven good private schools in secondary education operating their own counseling with career counselors – psychologists or school psychologists.

Private Career Counseling Centers offer individual specialized Career Counseling & Guidance Services for secondary students, unemployed, professionals with personal sessions psychometric tools and information.

Career Services in the Private Sector (1)


Career Services in the Private Sector (2)


Parents & their Children’s Career Counselling

The need for their engagement to the Career Counseling Process


Obstacles

Self-projection of their own needs and expectations

Need to postulate their own stereotypes

Projection of their own fears

The above lead to the limitation of their children’s

perception for their career development


Why should parents participate in the process of Career Counseling

To be “trained” and to be sensitized to new approaches in relation to Career Counseling

Enhance the open minds to the new, emerging, innovative career choices due to technology advancement

To provide emotional support and eliminate the need to control their children’s life

To be aware of the new process of career decision making To enhance the positive image of their children To encourage their children’s engagement to (lifelong)

learning activities


Department of Career Department of Career CounselingCounseling

S.T.E.P. S.T.E.P. since 1993 at Doukas School

Head of Department: Maria KoutsaftiAssociates of the Department:

Aspasia Koukoumtzi & Georgia Matziara


Especially, nowadays, a period characterized mainly by the

rapid change and internationalization of labor, deciding and

managing a career becomes complicated and it is often

frustrated. The person is required to handle variety of

knowledge, to recognize the aspirations, values, needs and

roles involved.

Career decision making is crucial for every individual


By adopting the Model of Personal Career Management,the department following the new trends aims to the

creation of a new “culture” about career decision making and development

According to this model, the individual is required to have the possibility to reconsider the relation between the acquired education, the job and the personal abilities, to be prepared through a lifelong learning process to be redirected successfully along with the rapid changes of labor.

Philosophy (1)


STEP is committed to helping every student identify, plan and

implement sound career decisions as part of his/her education

and personal growth through a broad range of services which

are constantly renewed:

Individual Career Counseling,

Assessment through valid psychometric tools,

Educational information,

Seminars/Workshops,

Career Day.

Philosophy (2)


• The continuum, individualized program starts in 3rd Grade of

Gymnasium and is completed in 3rd Grade of Lyceum &

International Baccalaurean.

• Evaluates and supports students who face difficulties,

questions, or dilemmas and supports the decision making

process.

• Emphasizes to the distinction and evaluation of the educational

and professional options as well as the information about

workplaces by providing reliable information on academic

institutions and on the job market.

The program-Methodology


• An interactive individualized program with a basic goal is

the awareness and the sensitization of the students about

their initial career exploration and planning through

specialized exercises related to personality traits, interests

and values and updated information.

• Planning of a personal “Career Map””

3rd Grade of Gymnasium


Main goal is for the students to have a deeper perception and awareness of the importance of “personal planning”. Therefore, it seeks to gradually gain a wider knowledge of their skills and strategies during the decision making and also have a critical attitude to the complex information they receive

1st Grade of Lyceum

2nd to 3rd Lyceum

• Follow up individual meetings with additional updated information material


Evaluation through valid psychometric questionnaires

& tests (personality, values ,interests and abilities)

Personal sessions - counseling analysis

Individual folders are given with detailed presentation

of the results of the questionnaires and tests

Targeted and comprehensive information in relation to

educational fields and professional options

(the results of this procedure vary according to the

emotional growth and capability in decision making of

every student)

1st Grade of Lyceum – The Process includes the following Steps:


The department encourages & maintaines the direct contact

with the parents, on a personal or group level through:

• Personal sessions with the Career Counselors

• Seminars/workshops

• Lectures open to the public with various

topics

It’s aim is to sensitize and inform them about their

children's career development

Parents


STEP organizes or takes part in a wide variety of workshops, training and open lectures to students, parents and teachers on career related topics:

Test anxiety Building Confidence Time Management Decision Making Job Search Skills etc

Mentoring Program: a structured education program which held a year ago to Teachers in collaboration with the School Psychologists.

Workshops/Training


Career Day

Career Role Model (Video Productions)

Educational / Professional Visits

General ActivitiesFor accurate and realistic information

on the labor market


Distinguished, successful and accomplished professionals are

invited to participate in panel sessions that help our

students gain insight into the variety of professions and

diverse career paths.

Panel sessions conclude with a question and answer period to

facilitate students-professionals interaction.

Career Day


Creation of career videos in order to show to the students in a vivid way how some alumni from Doukas school manage their career paths, and what challenges and difficulties they have handled.

Career Role Models

Educational/Professional Visits

Every year the department organizes visits of its students to University Institutes & professional settings.


Structured questionnaires are given to students and

parents, in order the evaluation of our services

Comparative Evaluation study between the educational

fields that the Counselor suggested to the students in the 1st

Lyceum and their results in the Panhellenic Examination

Evaluations-Research (1)


Research on the “Relationship among Career Decision Making – Personality Development –Family Relations”.

Methodology Structured questionnaires filled by students of the 2nd grade of

Lyceum

Indicative Results According to the research, the personality development

stage positively correlates to the occupational personality development stage.

Insecure attachment towards their parents may lead young adults to quickly establish their personality and to assimilate their parents’ system of values, beliefs, convictions & goals.

When an adolescent is emotionally dependent and continually seeks the confirmation, acceptance and support from his/her parents, finds it difficult to make career decisions.



The more emotionally independent the young adult is, the more he/she develops the ability for decision making towards career choices.

The more the system of beliefs and values is shaped the more capable the adolescents become for the appropriate career decisions.

Finally, the students’ occupational decisions may reflect the culture of their school .



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