Vocational Councelling for the Career Design: Change of Paradigms
Vocational Councelling for the Career Design: Change of Paradigms

Summary/Abstract: Significant achievements in the fields of science and technology and rapid economical, social and political changes, accompanied by the appearance of new professions and the disappearance of the old ones, determine a new approach to the phenomenon of the choice of vocation. The choice of vocation as a social phenomenon is becoming a constant mode of life of a modern human being. Consequently, today it is possible to discuss the phenomenon of vocational career designing as a continuous and inevitable process that concerns every person aiming to integrate and survive in the constantly changing labour market. In this context vocational counselling assumes a new significance and becomes continuous vocational counselling that implies a continuous symbiosis of vocational and career counselling. The article analyses the paradigms of vocational counselling development, discusses the main vocational counsellor functions in assisting people of various social groups to design their vocational career.

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