The OECD with the support of Education and Employers and Amazon has developed a Dashboard that graphically presents the results of the OECD 2022 survey of career thinking and career learning activity of young people, undertaken as a module of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) programme with 15 years-old students. The PISA assesses […] The post OECD: CAREER READINESS DASHBOARD appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP
POLICY LANGUAGE, POLICY MARKETING, AND POLITICAL RHETORIC Dr. Belinda Howard (Australia) has recently addressed the maze of language, descriptors, and phrases that accompany career guidance in education, employment, and social inclusion policies in Australia at state, territories, and federal level. These descriptors included pathways, transitions, career development and career education, used almost interchangeably. Each state and territory framed […] The post NAVIGATING THE POLICY LANG...| ICCDPP
EU GUIDELINES ON LIFELONG GUIDANCE, BOLOGNA PROCESS FOLLOW-UP GROUP, AND PRINCIPLES OF THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF THE EUROPEAN AREA OF HIGHER EDUCATION On a daily basis, we all need the competence to visualise, plan, and implement our futures. Students who participate in higher education institution programs are no different, particularly with reference to their futures in […] The post CAREER GUIDANCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION: A EUROPEAN UNION POLICY PERSPECTIVE appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP
The late Helmut Zelloth of the European Training Foundation (ETF) described the relationship between career (vocational) guidance and vocational education and training (VET) in unflattering terms: ‘neglected’, ‘avoidance’, ‘unexplored’, and pointed to the linguistic confusion that sometimes arises through the shared history of the term ‘vocational’ (Zelloth, 2014), which when translated into other languages (e.g. […] The post CAREER GUIDANCE AND VET – EUROPEAN UNION POLICY...| ICCDPP
This fascinating Thematic Paper, published 2025 by the European Commission – DG EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL AFFAIRS, AND INCLUSION, reviews the evolving role of the Public Employment Services (PES) in the prevention of unemployment through career counselling and upskilling of employees. Helping workers at risk of unemployment to make job-to-job transitions has not been a typical performance […] The post EARLY INTERVENTION AND JOB -TO -JOB TRANSITIONS – CAREER COUNSELLING IN THE PUBLIC EMPLOYME...| ICCDPP
FINNISH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR EDUCATION 2023 The provision of guidance counselling in Finland is based on the structure of its education system where basic education encompasses the age range of 7 to 16 years followed by transition to either upper secondary, vocational education and training, or work and independent living. Finland is one of the […] The post CRITERIA FOR GOOD GUIDANCE – FINLAND appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP
Career guidance professionals in Sri Lanka have long been members of the ICCDPP community, including participating as a country team in the ICCDPP International Symposia on career guidance and public policy. Hence, it is of great pleasure to see how such participation has contributed to enriching national public policy debate on career guidance in Sri […] The post SRI LANKA: NATIONAL CAREER GUIDANCE STRATEGY 2025-2029 appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP
OECD Working paper 2024 based on PISA 2022 results This working paper is a salutary reminder of the challenges of translating good policy and systems intentions into effective mechanisms for developing teenagers’ career visualisations and plans for the future. It is based on the analysis of responses of 62 schools and 2138 students attending those schools […] The post OECD: CAREER GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE MADRID REGIONAL GOVERNMENT AREA, SPAIN appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP
ICCDPP and the World Association of Public Employment Services (WAPES) undertook a joint survey of career guidance provision in public employment services worldwide in late 2024. The survey examined public policies driving the provision of career guidance and their implementation through organisational programmes and priorities. It looked at main user groups of PES services and […] The post CAREER GUIDANCE IN THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES WORLDWIDE 2025 appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP
Auckland, New Zealand NOVEMBER 2026 The Careers and Transition Education Association of New Zealand (CATE) and the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy are delighted to announce that the next International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy will take place in Auckland, New Zealand in November 2026. CATE has graciously […] The post NEXT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY appeared first on ICCDPP.| ICCDPP