Career Guidance in a Changing Labour Market

he European labour market is in a constant change, and consequently many employees face the situation in their workplace where they suddenly don’t have the requested necessary competence to continue in the same job. The necessity for re-training to achieve the right competence becomes more and more evident. Because of the complexity of the modern labour market it also becomes more and more necessary with proper work guidance and advice for the individual workers with low skills. It is also necessary to aim at reducing the shame that traditionally has accompanied a person who doesn’t manage difficult job-situations without getting help.The main objective with this Erasmus+ project - WORKGUIDANCE - is to improve the quality and the effect of how work guidance is used in practice, in order to better motivate more low skilled workers / employees to seek work guidance as a preventive measure in cases where they might lose their job due to structural changes at work. The main target group for this project is teachers / trainers (coaches) that need to improve their coaching skills when delivering practical work guidance to employees with low basic skills and / or employees in danger of falling out of working life due to structural changes. The results will also be relevant for working with jobseekers trying to enter working life.The aim of the project is to develop new ways of using the best and most efficient parts of excisting methodology, by focusing on exchange of good practice exchange, combined with re-design and validation of already in-use tools and / or describing how to adapt well-known methodology in new ways, for good improved practical work guidance towards the groups mentioned above.The main outcomes of our project will to investigate what work guidance factors – both on structural, practical and result-level- are most important to prepare workers with poor basic skills to be able to obtain a uctional work guidance. The outcome of the project will primarily be the practical results from the planned guiding experiences in the partner countries, and the practical results will be presented in a Guidance Manual that will be easy to use for other interested parties, in the future.The broad mixture of partners – both with experience as providers but also as representatives for large industrial partners – will ensure that the results will be transferred and exploited to other European countries. Since most of the partners also have a broad experience with other Erasmus+ projects, this will ensure a potential for synergies with other Erasmus+ projects.Each partner will evaluate the way the stakeholders, especially national authorities and providers, respond to the findings and results from our project. This will be a running process during the whole project, as well as after it is finished. We will measure the impact of our project by registration of references to the project on websites, in social media and so on in each participating country. There will also be an evaluation of the results from the training sessions in each country by surveys and interviews with the participating employees or jobseekers and the managers on different level.