Competent Career Counselling in Youth Work

   In today’s 21st century that is considered as an innovative and knowledgeful era, young people must possess various personal and professional skills to meet the dynamic needs of labour market. Nowadays employment landscape is evolving rapidly and because of that having knowledge and skills for the future job opportunities is increasingly significant for the young people to have effective access and to choose their future education and career.

Employment is an existential basis upon which people build their identity and social security and young people especially those with fewer opportunities face different challenges when trying to access employment.Unemployed people have limited access to income, working resources, social, health, educational and cultural services associated with malnutrition, social exclusion and poverty. To avoid all these problems, it is vital for those young people who have the capacity, potential, talent and ideas to strengthen their competences by transferring knowledge, skills, attitudes and successfull practices from the youth workers to them which will give them motivation and show them many ways for success in this cruel and challenging world of fast changes. These days, young people rarely are able to research and find summarized data by themselves for what kind of quality education and jobs are needed for the future labour market and youth organizations eather don’t have enough capacities with which they can help the young people choose the education and jobs with which they will be happy and have enough financial subsitution in it.

This is the reason why many organizations started using the career counseling approach as one of the most successfull to help young people integrate to the job market and prevent them become part of the NEET group. Therefore, this project will enable us to share experiences, knowledge, methods, approaches and tools for career counseling and guidance. Analysis and reports related to what is likely to happen in the future job market will be presented. In accordance with that, youth workers will be informed what kind of job opportunities and skills will be demanded and will be easier for them to present, coach and mentor the young people for better education and career choices.

The main aim of this project is to improve the competences of the youth workers about future jobs and qualifications to empower young people in making successfull education and career choices.

Based on the above aim, the objectives are as follows:

-Improving competences of the youth workers to make successfull career counseling and guidance of young people

-Introducing the future job trends and requrements.

-Presenting the youth workers education opportunities that are in correlation with the future job trends and requirements.

-Equipping youth workers with relevant competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) and

capabilities (social, organizational and personal) for the future.

-Providing youth workers with tools, methods and approaches for working with youth in area of career and vocational counseling and guidance.

-Improving the networking and cooperation among youth organisations

-Improving the knowledge and skills of the youth workers for project cycle management.

-Improving the skill for planning and designing projects.

-Promoting Erasmus+ programme and similar opportunities as a tool for mutual learning and cooperation among youth workers and young people.