Quality Assurance in Career Guidance Practices in the Czech Republic

This article discusses the quality assurance measures implemented in career guidance services in the Czech Republic. It covers the involvement of various organizations, assessment standards, individual roles, and tools used for ensuring the quality of career guidance. The emphasis is on standards, feedback mechanisms, and the importance of quality control in this field to enhance the overall effectiveness and impact of career guidance initiatives.

• Career Guidance
• Quality Assurance
• Czech Republic
• Assessment Standards
• Vocational Qualifications

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1. Quality Assurance in Career Guidance in the Czech Republic 26. 10. 2017 Sdru en pro kari rov poradenstv a kari rov rozvoj

2. What do we do? (1) Semi- badgetary organisations Regional Organisations Other Providers Employers Private Providers Labour Office NGO School Counselling Centres Counselling Centres for Schools University Counselling Centres Schools (Curriculum)

3. What do we do? (Assessment standards) National Register of Qualifications This portal provides an overview of nationally recognized vocational qualifications in the Czech Republic, which can be obtained by validation of non-formal and informal learning. https://www.narodnikvalifikace.cz/en-us/qualification-1539- Employment_career_counsellor JOBHUB - catalog/list of career and guidance practitioners

4. What do we do? Individuals (based on the survey) Individuals for Quality Assurance use: Feedback forms Feedback questions as a part of the guidance dialogue Quality Assurance proposals: Supervision standardization Create and use mentoring network Set up rules for required education and experience of career advisors Design obligatory standards for Quality Assurance Inspire in other fields of services (health care)

5. What do we do? Organisations I (based on the survey) Organisations for Quality Assurance (QA): QA prepared by the Czech National Association of Bilan de Comp tence prepared by Guidance Services Support run by National Training Fund) QA mandatory within any EU project evaluation QA as The Code of Ethics for Process Standardization at Czech Labor Offices QA within The Quality Standards (mandatory to guidance provided within the social services; the quality of the service is focused primarily on the client, but also on the consultant - employee in connection with its preparation and professional guidance)

6. What do we do? Organisations II (based on the survey) Tools for Quality Assurance: QA as personal responsibility of consultants and support and superior responsibility client feedback (oral, written - addressed, anonymous) input and output questionnaire intervision methodical consultations work shadowing case studies group and individual supervision

7. Recommendations (based on the survey) Shared definition of CGC and its quality Shared definition of CGC and its quality Standards for CGC Standards for CGC, incl. ethical codex, certification of counsellors, legislative Education of counsellors Education of counsellors (pregradual and further education, incl. trainings, mentoring) and supervision supervision Cooperation Cooperation(mentoring, internships, sharing of good practice, networking, professional associations, etc.) Source of information, inspiration Source of information, inspiration, experiences, opinions, educational possibilities, etc. Tools and knowledge for the evaluation of CGC evaluation of CGC

8. What works? Individual level - guidance practitioners initiatives Organizational level - regional organizations, NGO, higher education etc ) - projects Networks - Euroguidance ; N rodn cena kari rov ho poradenstv Other professional bodies CGC support for schools (secondary education) via Ministry of Education (M MT)

9. What works? and Sport Ministry of Education, Youth 1) Amendment of the law in preparation - listing the CGC position in schools this year did not go through 2) Regional action planning (KAP) In this project (EU funds) MoEYS formulates recommendations for secondary education based on ELGPN definition of CG. X Project implementation is based on regional/local needs (local stakeholders panels), where ELGPN definition of CGC is not fully understood (or is not taken into account)

10. What works? MoEYS 3) MoEYS Templates ( ablony ) In this project (EU funds) MoEYS supports CGC counselor position in secondary schools and education in CGC for teachers and educational consultants (secondary education) X CGC position in school has only temporary support (12-24 months), CGC education has no common concept, quality setting, evaluation

11. What doesnt work? ? ? shared vision on career guidance and counselling (CGC) ? ? consensus on guidance practitioners competences and trainig ? ? implementation of the project outputs into the guidance system ? ? priority given to CGC

12. How can we learn from it? importance of discussion and shared vision focus on needs and demands of the counsellors find links between different levels of CGC support

13. Thank you for your attention! Thank you for your attention! Any questions? Any questions? sdruzenikp@gmail.com sdruzenikp@gmail.com www.sdruzenikp.cz www.sdruzenikp.cz