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Specialist Training for Career Guidance and

Counselling Produce New Types of Competence for

the Need of Working Life

An objective of lifelong guidance is to ensure continued career guidance and counselling for anyone who
needs it. One way to meet this need is to find new types of solutions for developing the career guidance
skills of different professional groups. In Finland, specialist training options for career guidance and
counselling has recently been established for professionals who have completed an academic degree and
are already employed. At the moment, there are two specialist training options for career counselling in
Finland.

Training for career guidance The specialist training for career operating environments. In the
and counselling professionals guidance and counselling has future, the new concept of
students from all of these five specialist training for career
Students of the specialist training groups of career guidance guidance and counselling is
for career guidance and providers. planned to be combined with
counselling are employed in follow-up research to monitor the
Individual and customer-
various organisations offering development of skills and the
career guidance and counselling. oriented career guidance participants’ career paths.
We can identify at least five types
of career guidance and Specialist training for career Jaakko Helander, Principal
counselling providers in Finland: guidance offers professionals of Lecturer of guidance and career
various fields the opportunity to counselling at HAMK
develop and deepen their career
1 Educational institutions offer guidance and counselling skills University of Applied Sciences
career guidance and counselling and expertise. After completing
services for pupils and students the training, the participants of the
2 Employment and training are able to analyse career Edited by Juuli Juntura
Economic Development Offices guidance and counselling as part Euroguidance Finland
of the more extensive pace of
serve unemployed job seekers change in working life and society.
and employees considering a
change of career Another objective of the training is

3 Employers offer career to know how to execute individual
guidance services to their and customer-oriented career
employees guidance processes. The
participants assess their own
4 Businesses offer career professional career guidance and
guidance and counselling counselling practices and the
services to clients quality of guidance services
5 Organisations offer their offered by various guidance
service providers. Another target
members career guidance and is that the participants can plan,
counselling.
market and organise career
guidance and counselling
services for the changing