Good Practices in Career Guidance

Sharing Experience from Bulgaria

Belgrade, 05.12.2013

Main points

* New developments in guidance in Bulgaria

* The role of Euroguidance centre

* Good practices

New developments in guidance 2013

* Career guidance at school education level is on the rise

* A system of 28 regional centres for career guidance has

been established (with EU funding)

* They offer free individual and group counselling to

young people, organise career fairs and invite people

from the business to share their experience

Main goals of Euroguidance Bulgaria:

* Promote mobility

* Support quality in career guidance services

The priority fields of Euroguidance Bulgaria are to:

* Promote the idea of career management skills in schools

* Develop a new skill among our counsellors: guidance for mobility

The Role of Euroguidance Bulgaria

To achieve its goals

Euroguidance Bulgaria:

* organizes seminars and trainings, conferences and study visits for guidance practitioners

* prepares educational guidance materials

* co-operates with the state, public, economic and science institutions in the country and abroad

* organizes national career guidance competition

Europass Bulgaria:

* helps citizens communicate their skills and qualifications effectively when looking for a job or training;

* helps employers understand the skills and qualifications of the workforce;

* helps education and training authorities define and communicate the content of curricula.

Cooperation Euroguidance -Europass

* Joint seminars and publications

* Common training programme

* Development of innovative methods

The same goal: Development of career

management skills and making qualifications

clearly and easily understood in Bulgaria

Innovative seminars for young people

Fairy tales for career

counsellors

* to provoke the interest

towards best practices for

career guidance

* to use the rich language of

fairytales to highlight the

importance of career

guidance

Diary of a kid who

wanted to become a

pilot, but instead

chose to become

* a tool for self-exploration

Metaphoric cards

* Innovative method for group career counselling through storytelling

* MYTHOS is a wonderful complement to counsellors’ everyday methods

* It's easy to play and full of surprises

* Every story is a new story, shaped by the fantasy of all its tellers

They inspire the imagination!

http://www.oh-cards.com/

Darplay

* Darplay is an innovative and

interactive game for developing

communication skills,

encouraging creative and

spontaneous talking and listening

http://darplay.com

Journey through Indian lands (2012)

* Educational and innovative game

* Model for group career counseling

* The training program consists of two

parts: role game and discussion

The scenario of the game or the so called

“challenge” is an adventure, which the

participants need to survive.

The second part of the program consists

of the main part of the learning

process. It includes an analysis and

discussion of the experiences gained,

as well as a debate of the possible

career solutions and development. http://selfinvest.eu/

University course „Career development”

(2013)

* It is a free election university course

* The main idea of the course: to

motivate students for development and

to prepare them for their personal

career choice

* The main goal of the course: to improve

the career management skills of

students in order to become more

successful when applying for internship

or work

Guidance for mobility (EG – BG)

Training programme

Mobility Ambassadors

Network Blog “Mobility”

Training programme

* Innovative training programme:

Part 1: Manual for counselors

Part 2: Ideas for interactive exercises and games

to use in the counseling process theory and

practice

Mobility ambassadors network

* 8 experienced career counsellors

* Their mission is to:

promote the training programme “Guidance for

mobility”

make trainings and counselling for mobility

promote opportunities for mobility

Our motto is: Informed choice about mobility!

Blog “Mobility”

* Blog “Mobility”

To travel or not to travel – this is the

question???!!!

Virtual space where everybody can find useful

information about the world of mobility

Guidance for mobility

* Radio Rubric “Mobile people”

Inspiring stories of inspiring people

* It is a monthly rubric that presents stories of people

who have traveled around the world and have

experienced the magic of mobility.

Elena Borisova Veneta Kuyova Euroguidance Bulgaria HRDC Phone:+359 2 915 50 10 E-mail: bgeorgieva@hrdc.bg

vkuyova@hrdc.bg

www.hrdc.bg

Thank you for the attention!