Lifelong guidance and employability

in higher education
Raimo Vuorinen, Ph.D.
ELGPN Co-ordinator
University of Jyvskyl, Finland

Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
University of Derby, England

Presentation to the OECD

12 November 2014
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Career?

Career choise
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Career construction?
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Parallel paradigm shifts?

Voice of suppliers:

Voice of users:

Education & Training

Lifelong Learning

Career counselling &

Career guidance

Careering ?
Co-careering ?
Life Design ?

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Integrative role of Lifelong Guidance

Labour market policies, e.g.

Educational policies e.g

- Modernisation of Labour market

- Lifelong learning
- Matching skills
- Promoting participation in learning
- Identification of emerging
- Prevention of ESL
LLG
as
a
competence areas
- Completion of studies
- Competetiveness
- Progression to another learning cross-cutting element
- Transitions to Labour market
- Mobility
- Youth Guarantee
- Innovations, creativity
-
- Empowerment
- Entrepreneurship
- Individual learning paths
-
Social policies & Youth policies e.g.
- Welfare
- Inclusion
- Active citizenship
- Youth Guarantee Initiative
- .
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Definition of Lifelong Guidance?

What? Activities: e.g.information giving, advice, counselling,
assessment, teaching, advocacy
For whom/With who? All citizens
When? Any age and point in their lives
Focus? Making meaningful life choices on learning and work.
Empowerment to manage learning and career
Career? Individual lifepaths in learning, work and in others
settings in which these capcities and competences are
learned and/or used
Where? Education, training, employment, community, private
EU Council of Ministries Resolution on lifelong guidance 2004

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Lifelong Career Management Skills

(CMS)
Career management skills refer to a whole
range of competences which provide structured
ways for individuals and groups to gather,
analyse, synthesise and organise self,
educational and occupational information, as
well as the skills to make and implement
decisions and transitions.
(ELGPN 2010)

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Social
competences

Professional
competences

Key and
Tranversal
Competences
Rethinking of:

Personal
competences

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Lifelong
Career
Management
Skills as one key
competence of
Lifelong Learning
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Elements of a lifelong guidance system:

Policy Development

Organisations in charge of
LLG related services
Interaction with citizens
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Economic & Social

development

Expected
outcomes of
lifelong
guidance in
different
levels?

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Effectiveness of the
educational system
and the labour
market
Learning outcomes
Individual Career
Management Skills
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Integrative role of
Information and
Communication
Technology

National lifelong
guidance strategy

Need for a
common,
jointly
agreed
conceptual
framework

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University level
strategies &
implementation
Faculty level
strategies &
implementation
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So where does higher education

fit in to this?

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What is higher education for?

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Commission communication for the

modernisation of Europes HE systems
(20 September 2011)

Increasing attainment levels to provide the graduates

and researchers Europe needs
Clear progression routes
More transparent information on educational opportunities and
outcomes
Tailored guidance to inform study choises and reduce drop-outs

Improving the quality and relevance of higher education

Encourage the use of skills and growth projections and graduate
employment data
Encourage a greater variety of study modes
Develop active labour market policies to promote graduate employment
and enhance career guidance

Mobility
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Eurostat (2010)
Flash EB No 304
Employers
perception of
graduate
employability

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Problems for graduates

Unemployment
Underemployment
Dissatisfaction
Warehousing in
postgraduate
education
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Institutional responses
Employability as skill
Employability as immediate outcome
Employability as a lifelong attribute and
outcome (career)

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What works? Pre-entry guidance

What support exists
around higher
education choice
making?
How far is the
decisions made at
this point linked to
career?
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What works? On course guidance

Provision of information and resources

Career assessments and tests
One-to-one and group career support
Curriculum-based interventions (stand-alone
modules and integrated)
Strong links with employers
Provision of a framework for reflection e.g.
awards and recognition
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What works? Post-course support

Access to career
support?
How are alumni
networks maintained
and social capital
utilised?
Involvement of
alumni in on course
career programmes?
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In summary
Lifelong guidance offers an important
policy context for higher education.
There is considerable practice in career
development in higher education.
It is possible to identify a range of
practices that can effectively support the
careers of participants in higher education.

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Thank you
any questions?
Raimo Vuorinen, Senior researcher, Ph.D.
Co-ordinator of the ELGPN
Finnish Institute for Educational Research
P.O. Box 35
FI-40014 University of Jyvskyl
tel. +358-50-3611909
Fax +358-14-617418
email: raimo.vuorinen@jyu.fi
www: http://elgpn.eu/
Skype: vuorai

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Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
tel. +44 1332 591268
email: t.hooley@derby.ac.uki
www: www.derby.ac.uk

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Lifelong Learning Programme
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