VIRTUAL 2020 CROSS-BORDER SEMINAR "VOICE OF THE CLIENT IN CAREER GUIDANCE"

In an increasingly diverse and dynamic world, career guidance practitioners must reflect the complexity of different career and life paths while still keeping clients’ needs at the very core of the career guidance and career development process. Career guidance must differentiate and move from ‘one-size-fits-all’ to more individualised and client-centred approaches. This, for instance, implies provision of tailor-made guidance services to marginal groups such as people with physical handicaps, people with a migrant background or people coming from socially disadvantaged backgrounds and employment of different methods and techniques. The goal is to ensure equal access to quality career guidance services that are based on the analysis of clients’ individual interests and aspirations.

The 2020 Virtual Cross-Border Seminar (CBS) titled "VOICE OF THE CLIENT IN CAREER GUIDANCE" will feature renowned experts who will discuss the paradigm shift in the career guidance provison towards empowerement of clients and their active involvement in the service design. As the CBS are traditionally practice-based learning events, the keynotes will be followed by practical workshops which will present good practices from various European countries.

The programme of the seminar can be found at http://www.euroguidance.sk/cbs2020/agenda/ 

Registration is available at http://www.euroguidance.sk/cbs2020/registration/ until 25th September 2020 or until the maximum capacity is reached.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cross-Border Seminar 2020 will be held as an online one-day event.

Euroguidance Cross Border Seminars (CBS) were initiated in 2005 by the Euroguidance centres in Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. The idea behind these practice-based seminars was to encourage career guidance professionals to share their expertise and good practices in career guidance provision with their fellow colleagues from other countries and create a platform for extensive networking and knowledge exchange. Over the years, the initiative has grown to current 11 participating European countries. Each year, one Euroguidance centre hosts the event and gathers the guidance community around a topic of interest at both national and international level.