Raimo Vuorinen

Tässä raportissa tarkastellaan lukiokoulutuksen ja ammatillisen koulutuksen opinto-ohjauksen saatavuutta ja riittävyyttä osana elinikäisen ohjauksen jatkumoa valtioneuvoston (2020) hyväksymän elinikäisen ohjauksen strategian 2020–2023 painopistealueiden mukaisesti. Kansallisessa elinikäisen ohjauksen strategiassa 2020–2023 korostetaan, että ohjausp...

The scope of this paper is mainly on identifying practitioner competences relating to initial training but it acknowledges also the increasing importance of in-service training and continuous professional development. It is a contribution to a Cedefop's collection. This collection is a step towards updating Cedefop's work on professionalising caree...

This article reports the findings from a phenomenographic investigation into guidance counselors’ conceptions of career management skills (CMS). The results show that CMS was conceived as (a) information-based knowledge, (b) personal skills development, (c) interpersonal skills development, and (d) autonomous application of skills. The differences...

Finland has a long history of good collaboration between the educational and employment sector regarding lifelong guidance, specifically career guidance. Today, this manifests as having a national strategy for lifelong guidance, good access to high quality services and innovative pilots such as the One-Stop Guidance Centres for youth. The new gover...

We examine the role of counselors and other practitioners in delivering career interventions using Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Current benefits and limitations of ICT use provide the basis for recommendations. Potential benefits of increased ICT engagement include cost-effectiveness and improved access to resources and support....

Training programs for career practitioners continue to increase in both quantity and quality. For example, international opportunities for those interested in career development facilitator training have increased substantially during the past decade. In this chapter we provide highlights of these developments as they have occurred throughout the w...

Educational and vocational guidance has received increased attention with regard to policymaking in the Nordic countries over the last 15 years. This has led to a growing interest in research-based knowledge. Updating an earlier article, we undertake a systematic literature review of guidance research in the Nordic countries during this 15-year per...

2000-luvun alusta lähtien toteutetussa PISA –tutkimusohjelmassa alueelliset erot ovat olleet Suomessa varsin pieniä. Vuoden 2015 PISA-aineistossa kuitenkin pääkaupunkiseudun oppilaiden keskimääräiset tulokset olivat muuta maata parempia niin luonnontieteissä, matematiikassa kuin lukutaidossakin. Tarkemman kansallisen analyysin mukaan pääkaupunkiseu...

A practical Toolkit on career counseling and life long learning for PES management teams, made on commission from EU DG Employment and Social Affairs and Inclusion

This paper synthesizes the section of country papers that addressed reforming career services in education and labour with a focus on career competencies and successful transitions. It was based on the 22 country papers of 20 countries (3 papers; England, Scotland, and Wales; are from same country) that covered Theme 4. The following five questions...

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This chapter provides and overview of the evolution, activities and key outcomes of the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network. In 2007-2015 The ELGPN assisted the European Union (EU) Member States (and the neighbouring countries eligible for the EU Erasmus+ Programme) and the European Commission in developing European co-operation on lifelong g...

This article reports findings from a phenomenographic investigation into European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network representatives’ conceptions of the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) related to national lifelong guidance policies. The role of ICT in relation to national lifelong guidance policies was conceived as (1) unexpl...

This article reports findings from a phenomenographic investigation into career practitioners’ ways of experiencing social media in career services. Focus-group interviews were conducted with 16 Danish and Finnish career practitioners with experience using social media in career services. Four qualitatively different ways of experiencing social med...

This paper synthesizes the section of country reports that has addressed the role of emerging technologies in career development and public policies. The overall aim is to identify and describe the aspects that may play important roles in relation to further developments and successful implementation of existing and emerging technologies in the car...

The current draft concept paper on the next decade career services concept has been prepared by a national expert group linked to the work of the national guidance forum. The paper is very ambitious, consistent and up-to-date with strong references to the European level key initiatives

This chapter includes a more detailed analysis of the PISA 2012 career-related items in the Education Career questionnaire in Finland. Four scales were constructed that reflect 15 year-olds’ participation in career development activities, the range of career-related competences that they assess themselves as having acquired, and their judgements ab...

This article reports findings from a phenomenographic investigation into career practitioners' understanding of competency for social media in career services. Sixteen Danish and Finnish practitioners with experience using social media in career services were interviewed in focus groups. Competency for social media in career services was conceived...

The ELGPN Progress Report 2013–14 and three versions of the ELGPN Evidence Guide (Evidence Base on Lifelong Guidance: A Guide to Key Findings for Effective Policy and Practice) were published in October 2014.

The OECD has been conducting its PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) survey at three-yearly intervals since 2000. In addition to the primary focus upon student achievement in 2012 one area that was explored was career development. The option of completing the Education Career questionnaire was taken up by 22 of the 65 countries an...

p>Submissions of the news and things going in the field of CGC from many European countries, - Denmark, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Turkey, Slovakia, Sweden, Spain, Greece, the Faroe Islands, the Nordic countries, Italy, Hungary, Scotland, France, Finland, - and European Insitutions, - PES to PES Dialogue of the European Commissi...

This article reports the outcomes of a study, undertaken from a phenomenographic perspective, of career practitioners' conceptions of social media usage in career services. Fifteen Finnish career practitioners - representing comprehensive, secondary and higher education as well as public employment services - were interviewed in focus groups. The a...

In this chapter, the transformations taking place at the different levels of guidance provision are analyzed. The aim was to provide a tool to examine the interface between multisectoral guidance practice and policy development. On the basis of earlier research on regional guidance networks, a model is introduced in which schools, social, health, a...

How can guidance contribute to the promotion of individual wellbeing? How are lifelong learning and guidance strategies created and carried out in organizations and regions? How can the quality and resource efficiency of guidance be developed through evaluation? The Networked Guidance Service Provision (NEGSEP) Model developed at the Finnish Insti...

The increasing use of technology is placing new demands on career guidance practitioners. This article examines what changes, if any, have occurred in the perceptions of guidance practitioners regarding their role and the role of the internet in meeting guidance goals and delivering career guidance services. The data were collected in focus groups...

The Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC) implemented an evaluation of guidance services in higher education in 2000–2001. Altogether 25 higher education institutions participated in the evaluation. This article describes the evaluation process, findings and recommendations. The aim is to show how an evaluation process can serve the...

The Nordic countries have followed slightly different, yet complementary paths in terms of research in guidance. The balance between studies in guidance based on sociology, psychology, and even ethnology varies according to the research focus and tradition in each of the Nordic countries. This article covers main Nordic guidance research issues wit...

The guidance provision in Finland was evaluated in primary, secondary and in tertiary education during 2000 - 2002. The Ministry of Labour evaluated the guidance provision in public employment services during 2001 - 2002. The evaluation for adult education will be completed in during the spring 2004. At the same time Finland also participated in th...

Finnish universities are on the edge of transforming towards a symbiosis of traditional university and virtual university. The University of Helsinki established the Educational Centre for ICT in the beginning of 2000 to support university teachers in their attempts to benefit from technology in their teaching and to develop their pedagogy to use i...