MARKETABLE SPECIALTY-SUCCESSFULL CAREER

Name of institution     Kaunas applied art school
 
Duration of the project   01/04/2015 - 31/10/2015
 
Contact person      Raminta Gavenaviciene
 
Summary of the project   
 
"Marketable specialty=successful career” project’s aim - is to prepare methodological tool, which will be designed for qualitative career guidance services on vocational education choices. The format of the tool – catalogue. Target group of the project – 8-12 classes students and young jobless people.
 
The main activities of the project: catalogue creation and dissemination events in: press, radio, internet websites, Litexpo exhibition „School“, Kaunas territorial labor market, besides there will be 20 dissemination events which will be implemented at schools in rural area. Created product will be publicized during these activities.Created catalogue will contribute to vocational education popularization, persons will be promoted to choose these specialties that are marketable in labor market, will help to choose suitable specialty and show learning and working generality.
 
Besides, catalogue will contribute to better results of career guidance counsellors  in their counselling work on vocational education opportunities, because they will have visual material, which illustrates different specialties, possible work places. Also career guidance counsellors will get and will be able to use psychological tests on how to choose specialty, which will help person decide on its further career.
 
Methodological tool will increase collaboration between vocational education institutions and labor market – the process of the employee selection and suggestion will be simplified. This catalogue will be useful not only for a career guidance counsellors, but for target groups too – students and young jobless people will have an opportunity not only to see in one publication all vocational education institutions, which offers different kind of specialties, but also all companies which collaborates with vocational schools and provides work places for them. International mobility opportunities will presented in this publication too. In this way persons, who want to get vocational education will be provided with an opportunity to choose not only a specialty, but school and region too. Till now, there was no such kind of vocational institutions catalogue, which will provide such kind of information, where will be kept only information about vocational education.