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Comprehensive Adult Career Guidance in Norway

Explore the landscape of career guidance in Norway, from mandatory counseling in schools to alternative options like Folk High Schools. Discover governmental offers, commercial advisors, and vocational training opportunities. Evaluate the current system and its effectiveness.

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Comprehensive Adult Career Guidance in Norway

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  1. Adult Career Guidance in NorwayNordPlus Iceland Feb 2016 Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

  2. Education in Norway Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

  3. Governmental offers In school: • Mandatory: counselling. All Schools have an counseler. High school. Amefindthe right education. • Opionalcounselling: college and university. –. • Ung info – center • NAV system, since 2005. individuell and coordinatedwith all different needs • Training lessons (kurs) • Formel education • Training/volunteering Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

  4. Adult Career Guidance – or the lack of it…. • ACG is not a formal part ofanyCurriculums • No National plan • Accidental • Ineffective • Lose competence? • ACG is business- and marketorientated • Expensive • Not for young adults • Lot ofunserious offers • ACG as a part of NAV (Social and Labour marketDirectorate) • Unemployed • Social service • Onlypublic input to ACG Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

  5. Folk High schools in Norway • Folk High Schools • One year Personal growth • 3D training • Life Length • Life Depth • Life Width • Folk High schools • 80 schools – 7500 students • Part ofthe curriculum: • «3D veiledning» 3 dimentionalCouncellingin life: • length – workingcareer • width - democratic and politicalinvolvment • depth - meaning, religion and philosophy Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

  6. List of institutions providing ACG • «Smart Karriere» Commercial advicer – - Mappingofyourpersonality, interests and motivation. Using a program calledFivefactormodelMBTi-basedtool. • «Wie og Emmalis» Commercial advicerusing a system called by the same name. Workingtogetherwithpsychologists in Switzerland. • «Vox Karriereveiledning» - Advisory service. • Governmental FROM Uppersecondaryschool • «Covita Karriereveiledning» - Advisory service - Will not giveanyfurtherinformation due to business secret…... Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

  7. List of institutions providing ACG…. Cont. • Coachingclinic – for adults. A huge numberofwariouscommersialofferers. - Will not giveanyfurtherinformation due to business secret…... • NAV Work- training • Public • Individual • For unemployedor jobseekers. And As a way back for peoplewith longterm sickness (reconvalesens) • Metis Kompetanse. - Will not giveanyfurtherinformation due to business secret • As youcansee - there is no National strategy for ACG. It is a marketproject… Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

  8. Conclution • No formal part of any Curriculum • No National plan • Accidental and Ineffective? • Business and market orientated • A lot of private coaching Companies popping up • Expensive and therefor exclusive • Not for young adults • Lot of unserious offers • Social services is taking responsebility for some thorugh the NAV (Social and Labour market Directorate) system. • Folk High Schools have seen the need, and added it to their curriculum. • But it is not fronted as a marketing asset. Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

  9. Evaluation • Questback will be sent you by mail • Please send your e-mail adresse to • randi@ronningen.fhs.no • If you have any questions you want to include in the evaluation please send them as well. • And add the adresse to other persons that need to have the evaluation form as well. Randi Høgh og Vidar Skagen

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