Glossary

Range of activities designed to help individuals to take educational, vocational or personal decisions and to carry them out before and after they enter the labour market.

Comments:

• guidance and counselling may include:

  • counselling (personal or career development, educational guidance);
  • assessment (psychological or competence/performancerelated);
  • information on learning and labour market opportunities and career management;
  • consultation with peers, relatives or educators;
  • vocational preparation (pinpointing skills/competences and experience for job-seeking);
  • referrals (to learning and career specialists);

• guidance and counselling can be provided at schools, training centres, job centres, the workplace, the community or in other settings.

Source:

Cedefop (2008). Terminology of European education and training policy – A selection of 100 key terms. Luxembourg: Publications office. http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/files/4064_en.pdf [accessed 23.4.2012].