Carreers Around Me

Careers around me is a policy reform initiative aimed to help guidance providers make their services more impactful. Career management skills (CMS) refers to a set of competences (knowledge, skills, attitudes) that enable citizens at any age or stage of development to manage their learning and work life paths.

Through a social innovation experiment the project has developed the following:

1. A CMS framework: A model that consists of five areas: 1) Discovering myself 2) Exploring New Horizons 3) Building relationships 4) Developing my strengths 5)Monitoring and reflecting on my experience 6) Planning my career. For each of the areas there are competences and levels of proficiency involved
2. A digital library on career management information: Topics include: 1)Understanding Career Management Skills 2)Career Management Skills Frameworks in the world 3)Methodologies, indicators and systems to measure career management skills, 4)impact studies on the effectiveness of career management skills 5)Career management skills and other competences frameworks 6) Career management skills for different targets 7) Career Management Skills, e-guidance and online tools 7) The CMS framework
3. A toolkit to develop CMS.