Proposed Framework of Competences for Career Counsellors Employed at Primary Schools

Abstract

During the last decade, research and introduction of career guidance has been becoming an increasingly important need of contemporary society. This is highlighted by a number of documents at EU level that emphasize the development of counselling and establishment of career guidance with the aim of developing lifelong learning and of development of career counselling services in various institutions, especially in schools. The chapter is thus based on the formation of a competence framework for career counsellors employed at basic schools. The authors notice in the area of career guidance the surveyees put the competences in the forefront that refer to counsellor's interpersonal intelligence and the knowledge of enrolment procedures and of secondary school programs. Pedagogues have proved to be the occupational group the most competent to perform the job of a career counsellor. In the conclusion, the chapter presents a model of competence framework with six areas of knowledge, the competences following each other arranged by relevance.