The citizens of Europe are facing increasingly complex challenges to
their career development nowadays. Over the span of their lifetime, they
need to manage their careers, and make numerous decisions concerning
education, training and employment - decisions, which seriously impact
their futures and their wellbeing. To prepare citizens for these
challenges, and to support them in the progress, competent career
practitioners are needed. But what kinds of career practitioners are we
talking about? And what do they need to be able to do? How can the
quality of their training be assured? This handbook introduces common
European competence standards for the academic training of career
practitioners in Europe, together with some proposals and examples, of
how to implement and establish such competence standards in practice.
More than 200 experts from all across Europe have contributed to the
development of these shared standards of the Network for Innovation in
Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE). The standards are
already being used in many countries for the development of degree
programmes.