PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING ACTIVITIES FOR DOCTORAL AND POST-DOCTORAL STUDENTS IN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING ACTIVITIES FOR DOCTORAL AND POST-DOCTORAL STUDENTS IN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES

Summary/Abstract: Life’s changes and maturation will require continued growth, personally and professionally. In the last period of time this objective has became really hard to achieve, not only because of pandemic conditions around the world in terms of health protection and the volatility of work labour lately, but also because the social side of our personalities and the spiritual aspect of human identity have been severely tested. Nowadays, the majority of Romanian universities are coping to these challenges. In these trouble times, we all started looking for ways in which we could be more efficient or “work smarter” in order to maintain the feeling of normality in our lives. The need for counselling is constantly increasing for all participants to education (students and teachers) as well as for the employees, as general. Before any other reframing levels of analysis, the first step in someone’s career counselling process begins from analysing the self-perspective, in terms of personal qualities (strong points and weaknesses), personal needs, aspirations and professional interests. According to these issues, this paper is aimed to present the good experience of implementation a career counselling training program, included in the project “Scholarships for entrepreneurial education of doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers”, financed through the European structural funds. The project has been implemented in University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest in partnership to University DUNAREA DE JOS from Galati. Despite the fact that the focus of project’s activities has been on entrepreneurial competences’ development, as the title of project emphasized, the career counselling activities represented one of the most important and appreciated project’s activity. The target group’s level of satisfaction regarding this project’s activity has been analysed in the research described in this paper, proving its authentic value in order to highly increase the awareness of participants for continuous need of reflection on their motivation and aspirations about career. The quantitative research-based is aimed to analyse the participants’ perceptions and opinions referring to professional counselling program’s implementation, in terms of topics approached, effect and impact on developing their key abilities, such as: communication, planning and evaluation, decision making, management of socio-emotional skills, information about labour market etc.

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