Activities for improving career guidance in companies were the topic of the first meeting of partners within the project “CONNECT! Connecting Career Counselling and Human Resource Development in Enterprises for Higher Education and Training in Practice”. The meeting was held in Germany, on 5th and 6th of November 2019, and apart of Belgrade Open School, the representatives of universities and organizations from Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Lithuania and Greece participated. The project coordinator is University of Applied Labour Studies from Germany.
Career Guidance and Counselling (CGC) is an important tool throughout working life to help citizens, businesses and the economy to adjust to the rapid change in the labour market, the mobility of work and people and the dynamic developments within enterprises. CGC should be accessible not only in public services but also in companies. Professionals and students as (future) HR experts and practitioners, counsellors and coaches in public or private services play a key role in the implementation of company-based career work. However, a major problem is that CGC study programs do not integrate systematically knowledge and experience from enterprises’ and organisational perspective.
CONNECT! project brings together the research-based knowledge from the fields of career counselling on the one hand and human resource development on the other hand. Based on the desk and qualitative research, the project develops study courses based on well-founded, innovative and practice-enriched knowledge from the two areas “career guidance and counselling” and “human resource and development”.
The first activity within the project will be a review of promising practice in the area of company-based career work and actual needs based on literature, media and resources. This review will be conducted in all project partners’ countries, and it will be coordinated by Belgrade open school.
More information on the project is available here.