Career Guidance Services

1. Career Guidance Services Ya.Ochirsukh Deputy Team Leader/CGS expert Consortium APPLICATIO/PEM www.applicatio-pem.org Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

2. CGS Objective • The objective is to design an integrated LMIS and CG services for Mongolia. • The CGS will provide the Mongolian population with information, guidance and counseling to choose an appropriate career from school to work. It will help in making the best choice of career from the range of opportunities in the Mongolian labor market. • Both the LMI and CG systems will be designed in a user-friendly manner using the best available IT solutions to deliver the service nationally. Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

3. General Framework General Framework for Career Guidance Services • CGS Definition • Findings of The Inception Phase • International experience • Clients • CGS Design • CGS Training Proposals Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

4. Findings Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project • No comprehensive Career Guidance System in Mongolia • There have been a number of initiatives to create parts of a CGS • UNESCO/Otto Benecke Foundation/NCFNFDE/MYDF-2003 • MYDP/Otto Benecke Foundation/YDC, 2008 • ILO/IPEC 2008-9 ?MED / 5 universities • MSU 2008-09 ‘Student-2008, 2009’ e-books • www.biznetwork.mn • LECO www.labornet.mn 4

5. Findings • Urgent demand for qualified skilled professionals in mining, construction & infrastructure, directly affiliated professions, services & agriculture. • LECO, as the central organization for implementing a CGSS needs capacity building. • Training career guidance coaches has to be undertaken urgently, incorporating the existing first basic training project (ILO in cooperation with the Metropolitan Employment Department, 2010.) • Information data bases have to be set up, hard copies as well as web based in a standardized form. Existing materials should be adapted. In all cases an updating and revising provision has to be defined. Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

6. Findings: Sustainability is an issue Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

7. Findings: Sustainability is an issue Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

8. CGS Definition OECD Definition[1]: Career guidance refers to services and activities designed to assist individuals of any age and at any point throughout their lives, to make education, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers. [1]In demand: Career Guidance in EU Neighboring Countries, Helmut Zelloth, European Training Foundation, 2009, p.9 Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

9. CGS Definition (continued) Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project Such services can be found • in schools, universities and colleges, in training institutions, • in public employment services, • in the workplace, • in the voluntary or community sector and • in the private sector. • The activities may take place • on an individual or group basis • and may be face-to-face or at a distance (including help lines & web-based services).

10. CGS Definition (continued) Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project They include • career information provision (in print, ICT-based and other forms), • assessment and self-assessment tools, • counseling interviews, • career education programmes (to help individuals develop their self-awareness, opportunity awareness and career management skills), • taster programmes (to sample options before choosing them), • work search programs and transition services

11. International Model The European Training Foundation (ETF) when dealing with CG Systems uses the same definition as OECD and other EU institutions This general description of career guidance has become the worldwide reference definition An ever growing number of service providers, organizations and coaches offer career guidance In the internet a huge number of profit oriented companies offer career guidance services. Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

12. International Model New Zealand, a more communication focused view: "Career guidance provides individualized interactions to help students move from a general understanding of life and work to a specific understanding of the life, learning and work options that are open to them. It helps individuals or small groups to better understand themselves and their needs, confront challenges, resolves conflicts, develop new perspectives and make progress"[1] • [1]Career Education and Guidance in New Zealand Schools, Ministry of Education, 2009 p6 Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

13. Career Guidance Target Groups Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

14. CGS Design A structure meeting the following requirements: • modularized system with growing web-based content • step by step approach • It has to allow a “one stop strategy” • Adaptable to all levels • Automatic update of data bases • Curriculum modules for specific target groups • Qualified CG coaches in place and available • Quality assurance system in place and functioning • Regular revisions to adapt to changing needs Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

15. CGS Design (continued) • A network of all the relevant stakeholders has to be established & serviced. • A national standard for CGS coaches has to established including • Curriculum at a Mongolian university, and • A professional national association of career guidance coaches • Priority for CGS should be given to the secondary educational level. • Cooperation strategies for PPP activities have to set up using comparable experience from other countries and sectors within Mongolia. Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

16. CGS Training We are proposing Career Guidance training for the following officials: • Training / collaborative approach for CGS curricula development for LECO CGS Department/ LSWSO and if possible for MED as well • Training for Social Workers in TVET Schools • Training for aimag-level LSWD officers • Training for officials of 6 RMCs Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

17. Project Timetable CGS Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

18. Project Timetable CGS contd. Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

19. Working Group Information Provider Information needs regular updating Information is sent to LECO website Information is linked to LECO website CGS or IT responsibility Interested in Project Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project

20. You may find full version of all PPT presentations in Mongolian and English made today on the following web-site www.applicatio-pem.org Thank you very much for your kind attention Labor Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development Project