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Continuous professional training is necessary
Besides the formal, university education more is required in order to successfully work as an expert in the field of career guidance. Continuous professional training is required, various specific knowledge, skills and abilities need to be acquired, a sense for working with young adults should be developed, as this is a very complex and demanding work. It requires a good knowledge of people and society, legislation and regulations that often change. Also teamwork is becoming increasingly important which additionally, needs to be well organized and the tasks and content properly distributed.
The counsellor needs to have knowledge of education system: the possibilities and enrolment requirements, progression, transition. He/she needs to understand and apply new methods of working and thinking, ways of obtaining scholarships or loans from domestic and foreign funds. More over, he or she needs to monitor the labour market situation, know the strategies for solving situations (unemployment), find valid and updated sources of information, manage ICT, etc. And with all these tasks it is not to forget the administrative tasks that are becoming more and more extensive.
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