Career centers as an instrument for better universities and industry cooperation

1. Career centers as an instrument for better universities and industry cooperation National conference on Science and Industry cooperation “VUZPROMEXPO-2013” December 17, 2013

2. Content • Why career management (career centres) topic? • Career management “version 2.0” • National career management system development • Benefits of national career management system

3. Why career management (career centres) topic?

4. 21st century competences will drive personal, organizational and national competitiveness TECHNICAL COMPETENCES 21ST CENTURY COMPETENCES • Learning and Innovation Skills • Creativity and Innovation • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Communication and Collaboration • Scientific and Numerical Literacy • Life and Career Skills • Flexibility and Adaptability • Initiative and Self-Direction • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills • Productivity and Accountability • Leadership and Responsibility • Information, Media and Technology Skills • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy • Interdisciplinary Themes • Global Awareness • Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy • Civic Literacy • Health Literacy • Environmental Literacy

5. Although the reality shows that many young people are lacking necessary skills Source: International Labour Organisation: McKinsey Education and Employment survey (2012)

6. Career Management: What is it? It helps people to answer important questions… • HOW? • Throughout career management services: • Self-knowledge and career competencies’ assessment services • Career counseling services • Career management competencies’ development services • Career information services • Employability services WHAT I WANT? WHAT I CAN? WHAT IS NEEDED? … make decisions, plan own career pathway, as well as, enables purposefully seek education and professional goals

7. LABOUR MARKET EDUCATION SYSTEM Life long learning University College Institution of Having a plan vocational and constant education advice Secondary school Primary school Kinder garden Career Management: How it works? Having a target Knowing what is possible

8. Universities and employers cooperation challenges result in job market disbalance

9. Career management “version 2.0”

10. Who is driving career management topic? Government vs Institutional (university) vs Institutions network initiative

11. Career evaluation services Career consulting services Career management model Career development services Career opportunities services Job and internship search Services at career center Remote use of services Independent use of services Services for organizations Student/ Graduate Career management specialist Organization representative Career management specialist Graduate career monitoring Job offers preparation Potential employees search Services provided by career management specialist Independent use of services

12. Career management model components • Career management system vision, strategy and concept • Qualified personnel • Partnerships • Content of career management services (methodologies, learning programs, tools, tests) & services • Processes and resources • ICT for career management and monitoring

13. Career services are executed in different ways Career education organization Career services provision • Formal career education programs • Are awarded with study credits • Organized as optional course (with some exceptions) • Or integrated into standard study programme • Practiced in Finland, Portugal, UK, US, Slovenia, Estonia, etc.) • Informal career education courses • Are not awarded with credits • Organized as extra curriculum • Typically – specific trainings • Practiced in France, Poland, Malta, Latvia, Denmark • Career consultation • Group or individual • Short term or long term • Personal or distant (ICT) • Practiced in most of the countries. • Work tasters • Short term internship • Used for initial gathering of experience • Mostly practiced in United Kingdom, Germany. • Other • Career fairs

14. Various career competencies models are adopted in different countries

15. Career competencies sample

16. Building career management system

17. Approach to national career management system establishment Institution of Kinder Primary Secondary Life long vocational College University garden school school learning education 1. Career management system concept and strategy 2. Qualified personnel 3. Necessary partnerships ( internships , etc.) Prerequisites for 4. Content of career career management services management system (methodologies, learning establishment tools, tests) 5. ICT for career management 6. Processes and resources 7. Monitoring of career management system

18. Approach to national career management system establishment, cont. WP1. Career management maturity analysis and development road map preparation WP2. Preparation of new career management system concept and creation of a legal framework for career management system implementation WP3. Preparation of content for career management system implementation WP4. Enabling education sector staff to provide career management services WP5. Career management and monitoring information system development and implementation WP6. Testing of National career management system with pilot education institutions WP7. National rollout of national career management system Years 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 * Highly depends of selected approach and education sectors included in the program

19. Key benefits

20. Key benefits At country’s level career management: • is bridging the gap from employability to employment • is contributing to managing the balance between competences supply and labour market demand • decreases structural unemployment • increases country’s growth and competitiveness At school/university’s level career management: • is increasing prestige of the university/school • increases points devoted by international universities evaluations initiatives • provides feedback to university, which can be employed by improving university’s management, study programs and etc At the student or graduate level career management: • ensures better students’ ir graduates’ decision making • ensures better fulfillment, growth and financial stability of graduates life

21. Presentation of the call for proposals • Objectives • Eligible activities • Indicators • Eligible expenditure • Developing the project approach Thank you. Questions? Arturas.Piliponis@lt.ey.com