Career management skills and employability Anne Leppänen

1. Career management skills and employabilityAnne Leppänen

2. Uranhallintaidot Career Management Skills (ELGPN 2012) analyse and selectinformation implementchoices Ability to make and Ability to acquire, Career Management Skills Professional Competences Social Competences Professions Work Studies Education Personal Competences Social inclusion Jukka Lerkkanen & Anne Leppänen

3. A general definition of career management skills • Career management skillsrefer to a wholerange of competenceswhichprovidestructuredways for individuals and groups to gather, analyse, synthesise and organiseself, educational and occupationalinformation, as well as the skills to make and implementdecisions and transitions (Sultana 2009) • Theyrelate to self-consciousnessor to an awareness of opportunities (education, professions, jobs)(knowledge dimension) • Theyalsorelate to decisionmakingskills as well as to those of implementation of decisions and transitions (process dimension) • …and to the experience of social participation (Gravina & Lovsin 2012) Jukka Lerkkanen & Anne Leppänen

4. Fromcareerplanning to career management- definition of the conceptfrom the perspectives of the counselor and counselee Career management skills= an individual feature, a broad definition containscareer management skills and the relatedmetaskills metataidot, that is, the student’sresourceplanning (= reasoning and performancestrategies, especially in challengingsituations and with differentkinds of changes and choices) Careerplanningskillsrefer to competences (competenceobjectives) with the help of individualscancollect, analysesynthesize and organiseinformationrelated to - self, • educationand • professions, In addition, theyhave an abliity to applythisinformation and makedecisions in differentkinds of transitionphases.” Careercounselling= counsellingoperations in cooperation with the studentsaimed at the clarification of educational and professionalchoices. (Elinikäisen ohjauksen kehittämisen strategiset tavoitteet 2011; Sultana 2010; Leppänen & Torvinen 2013.)

5. The concept of employability(EU definition, see Kasurinen 2013) Life-longcareer management and planningskillsare an essentialpart of the concept of employability: Employability is a combination of factorsthatfacilitateemployment, stayingemployed and careeradvancement. Individualemployabilitydepens on: (a) Personal characteristics (including the adequacy of knowledge and skills); (b) How personalcharacteristicspresentthemselves and aredisplayed in the jobmarket; (c) Social context and environmentalimpact (i.e. incentives and opportunitiesto develop and updateone’scompetence) (d) State of economy(e.g. economicboomorrecession). (Kasurinen, H. 2013. Ohjaus työllistyvyyden tukena. Teoksessa Yhteisellä matkalla – Aikuisten ohjauksen vaikuttavuutta etsimässä. Toim. M. Niemi-Pynttäri ja A. Ryhänen. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu, 65 – 74)

6. The elements of employability in careercounselling(Kasurinen 2013) • Abilities • self-knowledge • expectations on personal capabilities • motivation • career planning skills • general life management skills • self-assessment skills • Life situation • human relations • responsibility for others (children, parents etc.) • other factors • employment situation • hobbies • National level • public services • labour market situation • economic development • educational and labour force policies Life situation and conditions Individual factors External factors • Conditions • living • commuting to work or school • resources • Local level • services supporting educational and career planning • services – e.g. child care • opportunities offered by business life • employment situation • educational provision • Competences • degrees and qualifications • work experience • working life skills and knowledge • information acquisition skills • other skills • Individual • attitudes • health • background • characteristics Figure 1. The elements of employability integrated to the counselling frame of reference

7. Students’ resourceplanning- individualfactors and abilities Resource planning (metacognitive) = individualreasoning and performancestrategies Important in e.g. • learning and studying (students’ subjectivenotions of themselves as learners and ways of studying) • decisionmaking (students’ notions of themselves as decisionmakers and ways of makingdecisions) • difficult and challengingsituations plus change and choicesituations • It is a part of one’sself-knowledge to becomeaware of personalresourceplanning • It is a part of the development of one’spersonalcapabilities to reviewone’sreasoning and performancestategies and realizethatresourceplanningcanbedeveloped = empowerment

8. Skills and competencesvaluedbyemployers(EU – vrt. Oivallus-hanke Suomi; Kasurinen 2013)

9. The position of anticipation in careercounselling? Pyramid of Information Processing Domains (James P. Sampson, Florida State University) Thinking about my decision making Knowing how I make decisions Knowing about myself Knowing about my options Client Version

10. The decision making process in career planningCASVE Cycle - Client Version(James P. Sampson, Florida State University) Knowing I Need to Make a Choice Knowing I Made aGood Choice ImplementingMy Choice Understanding Myself and My Options Choosing AnOccupation, Program of Study, or Job Expanding andNarrowing My Listof Options

11. Thankyou!Moreinformation:anne.leppanen@jamk.fi