The Career Box - Interactive career guidance guide

Aims of the tool

This tool is an online module designed to support youth workers in their career sessions delivered to young people.

We will cover some basic elements from the following subjects:
• Self-knowledge, tools for self-discovery;
• Inventory of skills, interests, values, models used;
• Exploring occupations, sources, tools;
• Planning your studies;
• Tools used in making a career decision, career planning;
• Looking for a job;
• Personal branding;
• Preparing applications, CVs, motivation letters, portfolio etc;
• Perspectives of employers/employees on the development of young people’s careers;
• Challenges and difficulties in the interviewing/applying for a job process etc.

http://thevoyage.eu/course/view.php?id=5

Description of the tool

The Career Box - Interactive career guidance guide

General description
You can find here tools to be used in getting ready for a career nowadays, from discovering your inner preferences to preparing yourself for a job interview.

Ready?
You can now start here: http://thevoyage.eu/course/view.php?id=5

Do you want to know more? Here is some relevant information.

Short video presentation of the module: https://youtu.be/mb4Bfbcjl8s

Participants:
This module can be explored by young people to support their decision regarding their studies, careers and future jobs. Youth workers can also use this basic module, or a part of it, in their work with young people. For the same support reason, the platform offers other tools (The SIMULATION BOX OF JOBS) and two online training courses (The youth worker online course, The learning to learn course). The module is open for participants from Programme and Partner countries of E+.

Topics
We will cover some basic elements from the following subjects:
• Self-knowledge, tools for self-discovery;
• Inventory of skills, interests, values, models used;
• Exploring occupations, sources, tools;
• Planning your studies;
• Tools used in making a career decision, career planning;
• Looking for a job;
• Personal branding;
• Preparing applications, CVs, motivation letters, portfolio etc;
• Perspectives of employers/employees on the development of young people’s careers;
• Challenges and difficulties in the interviewing/applying for a job process etc.

Learning tools:
E-book, reflection themes, sharing practices, quizzes etc.

Time:
You will need between 1 hour to 20 hours to explore the content of the module depending on your study pace and on what areas you want to discover.

Price: our module is free of charge for the participants, thanks to the funds from Erasmus+ programme and the efforts made by the team of the project.

Languages: The module is available in English and in Romanian.

Follow up
After exploring the module:
- you can join THE LEARNING TO LEARN HANSE – a proposed virtual sharing space;
- you can join THE YOUTH WORKER HANSE – a proposed virtual space for a community of youth workers in Europe;

The project: This module is provided within the E+ project “The suitcase, the map and the voyage of a youth worker”, funded with support from the European Commission. More about the project and the other online modules developed in the project can be found at http://thevoyage.eu.

The partners:
The team of the project consists of: Predict CSD Consulting (Romania), Schultz Development (Romania), Aurel Vlaicu University in Arad (Romania), Millennium Center Association (Romania), Dacorum Council for Voluntary Service (Great Britain), Asociacion Cultural Integra (Spain), Fundacja Centrum Aktywnosci Tworczej (Poland), Organization for Promotion of European Issues (Cyprus) and EURO – NET (Italy).

Still undecided?
Check our online offer out at http://thevoyage.eu and discover the e-modules we have launched, available to be explored self-paced.

Do you need help?
You can call us at 0040722977094 or write to contact@thevoyage.eu .

Are you ready for enrolment? Have you got all the information you need?
If you are ready, you can start here: http://thevoyage.eu/course/view.php?id=5

This material has been funded with support from the European Commission. The content of this material reflects the views only of the authors and the National Agency or the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information.