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Online seminar Career Compass

The use of the Career Compass is a successful practice in several countries, including the
Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia. On Thursday the 14th of May, we organised an online
seminar to exchange best practices and experiences with the Career Compass, and to identify
possible ways forward.

The Career Compass is a practical tool for guidance professionals which they can use in education or
business. Five career competencies are visualized and supported by various essential career questions. It
also includes a theoretical background and a practical guide on how to apply the compass.

Ways forward

The countries were also asked how they intend to
proceed with the career compass in their own
countries. Some of the answers were:

"dusting off" the career compass;
creating a Career Compass toolkit with all
existing methods/instruments;
digitizing the compass for use in online
“I've been using it with employees between 20 and career services;
40 years old and it helps them to understand their web-based training for those interested in
professional wishes and possibilities.” starting to use the compass;

updating the method compendium for
What have we learned from other countries?
different applications of the compass (produced
in 2014), including examples from other
The seminar showed how the career compass is countries.
being used in different countries, both in education
and the labour market. Participants were inspired
by the diversity, creativity and attractiveness of the Given the answers, there are steps to be taken,
methods and formats used. both as country teams, and joined forces. Activities
suggested are organising a webinar for a wider
Approaches vary both between and within audience, giving a joint presentation at the IAEVG,
countries, also depending on the context (client working together to expand the toolkit, updating the
groups, background or situation). For example, in Estonian method compendium, and exchanging
Denmark they apply a certain order and have a practices, especially for use with clients with special
dedicated method of preparation. In Estonia they needs. To be continued!
developed a compendium to choose the right
elements/approach for the consultation. The Dutch Read the full article about the online seminar
CEG Centre of Expertise focus on developing Career Compass HERE.
young people's career competences in education
with the aim of learning them to make career
choices, whereas the Service Centres on
Education and Work use the career compass to Karien Coppens
support the search for an individual's talents. Euroguidance Netherlands