Career Development Support in Changing Labour Markets

In times of changing labour markets, rapid technological developments and recovery from COVID-19, career development support is becoming increasingly important for people to manage the frequent and complex transitions within and between learning and work they face. At the same time, career development support services are challenged to provide better access and innovative ways of delivery to both youth and adults in a lifelong learning perspective. This course provided practical guidance on how to develop, implement and improve career development support systems in education, training, labour market services, and support for workers (formally employed, informal work, self-employed). OBJECTIVES The course aimed to empower participants in shaping career development support systems, policies and services in their country and respective institution. In particular, this learning journey helped them to: • Adapt career development support systems and services to global developments impacting on education and training systems and the labour markets; • Set actions to achieve context-sensitive key outcomes of well-functioning career development support systems, from coordination, to funding, quality, access, and the use of technology; • Identify in which way career development support is (a) supporting the building of lifelong learning systems, and can contribute to wider public policy goals in education, employment and social inclusion, and (b) is linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. CONTENT • Module 1: Introduction to career development support systems • Module 2: Cooperation and coordination for system development • Module 3: Funding and incentives to career development support • Module 4: Access and technology • Module 5: Formal and informal environments for career development support services • Module 6: Quality and system improvement