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CAREER COUNSELING RESEARCHES AND EXPERIENCE OF CAREER COUNSELORS00TRAINING AT VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY 
 

Lijana Navickien0

Vytautas Magnus university

Centre for Vocational Education and Research

12 November 2007, Kaunas

 
 
 
 
 

Researches on career counseling 

Dissertations; Master thesis; Scientific articles (journal Vocational Education. Research and Reality); National and international projects.  
 
 
 
 

Researches within projects 
 
 

   Leonardo da Vinci programme project  Meeting the Needs of Employment: European Curriculum Guidelines for Lifelong Vocational Counsellors in the line with the Challenges of EU Enlargement  
Leonardo da Vinci programme project  Overcoming Intercultural and Linguistic Barriers in Continuously Accessible Vocational Guidance and Counselling  
European structural fund project  Development and Implementation of the Master Study Programme "Career Counseling" 
European structural fund project Development and implementation of  career counseling system  
   European structural fund project Development  of open information and counseling system (AIKOS)  
 
 
 
 

Problems of career counsellors00 training in Lithuania 
 

There is no consecutive system for career counsellors00 training and professional development Lack of attention to the training and professional development of career counseling practitioners Preparation level to work as counsellors is fairly low Career counsellors usually enter counselling practice without any particular preparation Career counselors are those retrained people who have finished different courses or seminars and acquired formally unrecognized competencies of career counselor during their practice  
 
 
 
 

Problems of career counsellors00 training in Lithuania 

Educational background of career counsellors in Lithuania 

Social studies -  42 % (economics - 33 %, educology - 21 %,management - 18 %, sociology 00 12 %, psichology 009 %) Tehnical studies  - 36 % (mechanics,  building, engineering) Humanitarian degrees 00 10 % (filology) Physical studies - 8% (physics, mathematic, geography) Natural studies - 4 % (biology, agronomy, ecology, environmental science)  
 
 
 
 

Initiatives for solving career counsellors00 training and professional development  issues 
 

Continuous inconsecutive modular programmes Professional standard for career counsellors defining the main areas of activity, functions and competencies of counselling specialists, as a basis for planning, organizing and evaluating the content of specialists initial and further training Career counsellors training standard defining the main parameters of counsellors training (entrance requirements, studies duration, form, objectives , content of the studies, strategies for evaluation of students achievements, ect.) Master study programme Career designing  
 
 
 
 

Experience of career counselors00 training and professional development at Vytautas Magnus University 

Continuous inconsecutive studies 

Module based learning

Module 00 2 credits (3 ECTS), 80 hours

Target groups: educators of vocational institutions and secondary schools, labour market specialists, labour exchange counsellors and personnel managers. 

 
 
 
 
 

Continuous inconsecutive studies 
 

  Modular programmes for career counselors,  mediators and business counselors (since 2002):

Career designing methodology Introduction into psychological counseling Methods of individual00 cognition Methods of personnel selection Methods for counseling long-term unemployed Work with disabled Development of business plan Market researches Information management Leading meetings and discussions  
 
 
 
 

Continuous inconsecutive studies 
 

  Data on completion of the study programmes 

  Career counselors 00564:

  2002 y 00nbsp; 80

  2003 y00106

  2004 y 0097

  2005 y 00117

  2006 y 0080

  2007 y - 84 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Mediators -114 :

  2002 y 0025

  2003 y 0029

  2004 y 0025

  2005 y - 35 

  Business counselors: 

  2003 y - 49 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Master study programme Career designing 
 

Basic characteristics

An expansive master study programme devoted to develop competencies in the area of career designing; Provides a master qualification degree in educology; Competency-based programme; Volume 0063 credits (94,5 ECTS); Duration 001,5 year; Access requirements - university educational background in the fields of social sciences or humanities; Complementary studies - those who do not have basics of educology, psychology and management are required to study those supplementary modules together with bachelor students during the first two semesters.

 

 
 
 
 
 

 
  Master Study Programme  
"Career Designing" 
 

Obligatory modules (3 credits)

M1 Vocational counseling systems

M2 Methodology of activity research

M3 Research of vocational training and education

M4 Methodology of vocational career research

M5 Career counseling in  organization

M6 Psychological counseling methods 

M7 Career in different age stages

5 Optional modules (4 credits)

M8 Theories of educational sociology

M9 Applied educational philosophy

M10 Comparative educational policy

M11 Applied educational research

M12 Methodology for development of project works

M13 Lifelong learning quality assessment

M14 Systems of educational organization

M15 ICT in education

M16 Culture and educational change

M17 Andragogical didactics

2 Term papers (3 credits)

Master00 paper (15 credits) 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Master study programme Career designing 
 

Forms of organization

Full-time studies. Target group 00 students graduated from bachelor level studies without practical experience in the field. Extramural studies. Target group 00 career counseling practicians from education and labour market sector.  

 

 
 
 
 
 

 
European structural fund project  
Development and Implementation of the Master Study Programme "Career Designing" 
 
 

Main results:

Developed and legalized the master study modular programme 00areer Designing00 Developed teaching-learning material - tool-kits for study modules. Implemented  programme and prepared more that 80 masters in career designing.  
 
 
 
 

Intentions for the future 

Postgraduate study programme based on combination of theoretical and practical studies in higher school and development of practical skills in counselling institution and providing career counselor00 qualification. Scientific journal Career Designing: Research and Counseling.  
 
 
 
 

 

Thank you for attention! 

Contacts

Lijana Navickiene

E-mail:  l.navickiene@smf.vdu.lt

Tel.+ 370 37 327827

Fax. + 370 37 327823 

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