New strategies for the encounter with labour market

When she visited the Job info centre in Knjaževac, Jelena Stefanović, coordinator of the “Education to Employment” programme’s component for career guidance and counselling, said that it is important to support youth so that they can come up with new strategies to address increasingly more intense changes on the labour market.

In the career centres established in the towns and municipalities which take part in the “Education to Employment” programme, young people may obtain information about the options for further education and employment, as well as attend the workshops intended to improve their professional development management skills.

“The time in which we live is marked with fast changes, both in the economy and the labour market. Work culture and work environment are also changing. In such circumstances, career guidance and counselling become an important element in linking up the employers and the youth, not only with regard to the achievement of economic goals but also as a way to support the individuals to produce new ways to realise their career goals“, coordinator of the “Education to Employment” programme’s component for career guidance and counselling Jelena Stefanović pointed out.

Katarina Jagodić, a career practitioner in the Job info centre in Knjaževac, said for our portal that the tools applied under the “Education to Employment” programme are the career guidance and counselling tools which were developed in Switzerland and which are to this date used in that country as being of critical importance in career counselling.

“In order to be able to, in the best way possible, respond to the need of youth when it comes to their professional development, we are continuously developing new tools and our career practitioners are continuously acquiring new knowledge and being upskilled. All services are provided free of charge. Within our group career guidance and counselling activities, we offer to young people workshops on different topics, such as on CV writing, workshops on gender-sensitive professions, workshops on the topic of skill development, we organise real encounters, etc.“.

The job Info centre offers advice on the continuation of school or career development both to primary and secondary school students, as well as to all who are looking for a job or would like to make a career change.

Text and photo: Ljiljana Pavlović / Edited by Sandra Vlatković