Career Guidance Experts Course

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This course provides educators, trainers, and guidance professionals with comprehensive training in the design and delivery of modern career guidance services. Based on European standards and international best practices, it offers a modular curriculum covering foundational concepts, service design, labour market integration, inclusive practices, digitalisation, and international mobility.

The programme develops both technical and transversal competences aligned with the occupational standards for career advisors in Albania and Kosovo. Participants are guided through practical methods for evaluating services, supporting learner decision-making, and engaging with labour market actors.

Interactive sessions and real-case applications ensure participants not only understand theoretical frameworks, but also develop tools to apply in their own institutions, supporting diverse learner needs and enhancing employability outcomes

Understand and apply key concepts and trends in European career guidance systems.
Design career guidance services tailored to the learner journey and institutional context.
Interpret and integrate labour market information into guidance processes.
Use competence-based approaches to support learner development and autonomy.
Design inclusive guidance pathways addressing the needs of vulnerable groups.
Integrate digital tools and e-guidance solutions into service provision.
Implement international mobility frameworks to enhance career readiness.
Support learners in exploring international job markets and transnational opportunities.

Course Content

Module 1: Concepts and trends in CG
This module enhances common understanding of key career guidance concepts, providing a solid foundation for understanding essential terms and trends in Europe.

Description of Module 1: Concepts and trends in CG
Unit 1.1: Defining Career Guidance
Unit 1.2: Current EU Trends in Career Guidance
Unit 1.3: Planning and developing CG
Concepts and Trends in Career Guidance
Module 1

Module 2: Career Guidance Services throughout the “Student Journey”
This module elaborates the types of services and related practical tools that can be applied for each stage of the “Student Journey”.

Module 3: Navigating the Labour Market
This module focuses on understanding labour market characteristics and trends, and on translating those insights into practical career information and guidance for students and adults. Participants will learn to interpret trends, identify sectoral opportunities and challenges, engage employers and intermediaries, and design quality work-based learning experiences that strengthen career readiness.

Module 4: Euroguidance Career Compass Model and Tools
This module introduces and applies the five career competences approach promoted by Euroguidance. Participants will explore related tools and learn how to structure effective conversations that support learners’ career development.

Module 5: How to Make Career Guidance Inclusive?
This module provides insights into the barriers that certain learner groups (e.g. students with special needs, disadvantaged backgrounds, or diverse learning profiles) may face, and equips participants with strategies and tools to deliver inclusive career guidance services.

Module 6: Action Plan – Building Institutional Career Guidance
This module supports institutions in designing and implementing a comprehensive, inclusive, future-oriented career guidance (CG) service. You will strengthen foundations and governance, build a coherent service framework across pathways, integrate labour-market orientation, deploy the Euroguidance Career Compass, and embed equity for diverse learners. The outcome is a practical, sequenced action plan ready for piloting and scale-up.

Module 7: Digital Tools and E-Guidance
This module equips practitioners to plan, deliver, and improve e-guidance using secure, inclusive digital tools. You’ll compare platforms, practise virtual counselling skills, and create reusable digital resources that work across bandwidths and devices. We’ll embed privacy, accessibility (WCAG), and equity throughout, and finish with a short assessment and a practical service playbook.

Module 8: Internationalisation as a Tool for Global Career Guidance
This module introduces the concept of internationalisation in VET and explores its benefits, opportunities, and practical implementation at the school level. Participants will reflect on how internationalisation supports quality improvement, staff development, and student outcomes.

Description of Module 8: Internationalisation as a Tool for Global Career Guidance
Unit 8.1: Defining Internationalisation
Unit 8.2: Strategic Planning of International Activities
Unit 8.3: Understanding Funding Opportunities
Unit 8.4: International Outgoing Mobility for Students
Unit 8.5: Strategic Project Design
Unit 8.6: Virtual and Blended Mobility
Unit 8.7: Mobility as a Tool for Discovering International Job Market
Internationalisation as a Tool for Global Career Guidance
Module 8

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Course Content

Module 1: Concepts and trends in CG This module enhances common understanding of key career guidance concepts, providing a solid foundation for understanding essential terms and trends in Europe.

Description of Module 1: Concepts and trends in CG

Unit 1.1: Defining Career Guidance

Unit 1.2: Current EU Trends in Career Guidance

Unit 1.3: Planning and developing CG

Concepts and Trends in Career Guidance

Module 1

Module 2: Career Guidance Services throughout the “Student Journey” This module elaborates the types of services and related practical tools that can be applied for each stage of the “Student Journey”.

Description of Module 2: Career Guidance Services throughout the “Student Journey”

Unit 2.1: Different types of Career Guidance Services

Unit 2.2: Assessing Current Career Guidance Services

Unit 2.3: Selecting the most relevant Services

Assignments Units 2.1 – 2.2 – 2.3

Module 2

Description of Module 3: Navigating the Labour Market

Unit 3.1: Labour Market Trends

Unit 3.2: Labour Market Opportunities and Challenges

Unit 3.3: Engaging Labour Market Stakeholders

Unit 3.4: Work-Based Learning as a Way to Engage Labour Market

Navigating the Labour Market

Module 3

Module 4: Euroguidance Career Compass Model and Tools This module introduces and applies the five career competences approach promoted by Euroguidance. Participants will explore related tools and learn how to structure effective conversations that support learners’ career development.

Description of Module 4: Euroguidance Career Compass Model and Tools

Unit 4.1: Career Competences

Units 4.2 & 4.3: Conducting Career Competence-Related Conversations

Asssigment Unit 4.3

Module 4

Description of Module 5: How to Make Career Guidance Inclusive?

Unit 5.1: Possible Barriers and How to Deal with Them

Unit 5.2: Selecting and Applying Relevant Services

Assignments 5.1 & 5.2

Module 5

Description of Module 6: Action Plan – Building Institutional Career Guidance

Unit 6.1: Foundation of Career Guidance

Unit 6.2: Service Framework

Unit 6.3: Labour Market Orientation

Unit 6.4: Euroguidance Career Compass

Unit 6.5: Inclusive and Equitable Career Guidance

Action Plan – Building Institutional Career Guidance

Module 6

Description of Module 7: Digital Tools and E-Guidance

Unit 7.1: Digital Tools and Platforms for Career Guidance

Unit 7.2: Virtual Counselling and Communication

Unit 7.3: Digital Resource Development

Digital Tools and E-Guidance

Module 7

Description of Module 8: Internationalisation as a Tool for Global Career Guidance

Unit 8.1: Defining Internationalisation

Unit 8.2: Strategic Planning of International Activities

Unit 8.3: Understanding Funding Opportunities

Unit 8.4: International Outgoing Mobility for Students

Unit 8.5: Strategic Project Design

Unit 8.6: Virtual and Blended Mobility

Unit 8.7: Mobility as a Tool for Discovering International Job Market

Internationalisation as a Tool for Global Career Guidance

Module 8

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Module 1: Concepts and trends in CG
This module enhances common understanding of key career guidance concepts, providing a solid foundation for understanding essential terms and trends in Europe.

Module 2: Career Guidance Services throughout the “Student Journey”
This module elaborates the types of services and related practical tools that can be applied for each stage of the “Student Journey”.

Module 4: Euroguidance Career Compass Model and Tools
This module introduces and applies the five career competences approach promoted by Euroguidance. Participants will explore related tools and learn how to structure effective conversations that support learners’ career development.