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Lithuanian Career Counselling System
Lithuanian Career Counselling System

Author(s): Kęstutis Pukelis, Daiva Garnienė
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: Career counselling; vocational counselling; career design; career education.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an overview of career counselling in Lithuania and analyses further opportunities of creating an efficient and coherent national system. It also discusses legal basis, which creates preconditions for the development of career counselling services. Functions of the leading institutions are defined together with the methods used to create career counselling planning and coordination system. An attempt is made to provide a more comprehensive overview of the range of career counselling services. The work highlights the necessity of training career counsellors who could be able to perform this job in a professional way. It also grounds the importance of qualitative career counselling services, career education in general secondary schools and preparing young people to live under the changing labour market conditions.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 92-107
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English