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Career Guidance for Generation Z

∠ Young people’s awareness about future jobs;
∠ Career guidance practitioners’ capacity for
innovation;
∠ The role of policy support for sustainable,
quality, innovative career guidance development.

The Future of Jobs Report and Skills Panorama,
alongside many other labour market skills From 2020 the project will work with policy makers
and the Euroguidance network to produce:
intelligence sources, reveal the magnitude of
technological development and the impact that
this, coupled with socio-economic and ∠ A competition for innovative career services;
demographic trends, will have on industries, ∠
job functions, employment levels and skills. A Facebook competition for young people;
∠ An e-book of innovative career practices;
Futurists expect that 2 billion jobs that exist today
will disappear by 2030 and that 65% of children ∠ A policy evidence report.
entering primary school today will have completely
new job types that don't exist yet. By the time
Generation Z enter the workplace, digital
technology will be part of almost every career path,
creating new ways of doing things, new types of
jobs, and demanding new types of skills most of all
innovative thinking. It is not enough to show
children and young people HOW the world is
changing. They need to understand WHY it is
changing, and to visualise HOW it will look.

Future Time Traveller
The Bulgarian led project incorporates 7 partner
Future Time Traveller is an Erasmus+ KA3 FLCP countries United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Greece,
funded project that raises awareness about the Portugal, Italy, Germany and Poland with a pilot
future world of work through the use of a serious version of the platform being available in all partner
game. Users will enter a virtual reality environment languages from early 2019.
and, as an Avatar, travel through a time capsule to
the year 2050. They will explore future careers For more information on the project visit:
through different missions, challenges and quizzes,
working their way through the levels to eventually ∠ Felix J Prince Kankwamba
Project Officer Aspire-Igen
arrive back in 2020 with a ‘message to humanity
about the future’. ∠ Facebook.com page

The project will produce several other products
including a recent policy mapping study, focusing
on three critical factors: