In its programme area for improvement of employability Belgrade Open School supports individuals in finding creative answers to the challenges of finding, getting and keeping a job and advancing in both their professional and personal lives. In the era of a dynamic global labour market, common economic and social crisis, we believe that it is important to affect the development of career management skills, lifelong learning and as painless a transition as possible from education onto the labour market (or vice versa when the career development demands it).
So our team has, starting from 2003, been encouraging the individual's continuous development, lifelong learning and overall economic development of our society by contributing to the establishment of the career guidance and counseling system and by strengthening the connection between education and the labour market.
Our goals are:
- Further development and quality improvement of the career guidance and counseling system;
- Building the capacities of all participants in the career guidance and counseling process
- Conceptualization, creation and promotion of innovative career development models
- Supporting education reforms which will enable acquring competencies that are in accordance with the needs of the labour market
- Promotion of the concept of quality traineeships
- More effective employment and economic growth
Belgrade Open School realizes its activities in the programme area for improvement of employability through two complementary areas: Career Guidance and Counseling and Linking Education and the Labour Market. Activities realized:
- Developing strategic documents (models, policies, strategies);
- Supporting institutions in the further development of the career guidance and counseling system and practice;
- Developing and promotion of using innovative techniques/tools and instruments for career guidance and counseling;
- Raising the capacities of those who provide career guidance and counseling services, as well as individuals, by organizing trainings and seminars;
- Career informing of youth and their parents;
- Individual and group career counseling of youth;
- Online career counseling and informing of individuals via BOS Career;
- Research in the Career Guidance and Improvement of Employability area;
- Publishing works in the Career Guidance and Improvement of Employability area;
- Organizing traineeships, mentorships, visits and other forms of connecting unemployed young people and employers;
- Establishing a network of interested parties, connecting employers, education representatives, employment, youth policy actors;
- Monitoring the potentials, needs and cooperation between the education system and the labour market;
- Supporting young people in the process of employment, self-employment and entrepreneurship ventures;
- Promoting perspective occupations, entrepreneurship and good practice examples.