INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1
Youth development and what is important to know about the career guidance of modern youth
INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1
Youth development and what is important to know about the career guidance of modern youth
Author Gintarė Joteikaitė
In terms of career guidance in a modern, dynamic and constantly changing world and in trying to understand how a youth worker, who is well-prepared to work openly with young people, could best help his/her target group to face the challenges related to self-realization on the career path of a young person, it is important to take into account these aspects: 1. EXTERNAL ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENT What are the tendencies of the rapidly changing labour market, where does technologies that evolve at an advancing pace lead us, what competencies and skills are and will be important in employment sectors now and in a decade, how the work culture of organizations is changing and why the internal processes in them are moving in this particular direction. 2. INTERNAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT What are the necessary psychological aspects of development for young people themselves and how career counselling differs for people of different age groups? How young people themselves are affected by daily changes in the world and what are the challenges that young people face in taking their first steps into the labour market? While working with young people, with groups of them or individually with one person (individual counselling, mentoring, or other types of guidance), a youth worker in one way or another confronts with the results of certain external aspects of the environment or internal aspects of psychological development that emerge in the young people’s self-consciousness. Thus, a broader overview of the situation will make it easier to make the right decisions at the right time or even initiate an appropriate discussion with the young people themselves, while looking for effective solutions together, creating a secure communication environment and getting to know the scientific context of a certain young person’s well-being.
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