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How Do WE DESCRIBE WHAT WE ARE DOING?
papers and via expert networks such as, for example, the European Guidance
Network (EG)? and the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN)”.
The strong labour market orientation of European policy places particular
significance on lifelong guidance and career counselling, and this area has
subsequently gained more attention in recent years. It is expected that guidance
and counselling services — for example for people in transition phases (transition
from school to work, from employment to unemployment or retirement etc.)
— will become increasingly important in the future. In the context of these
political developments, Supervision and Coaching practitioners are likely to
face a significant challenge in distinguishing the specificities of their own
professional identity in relation to other guidance and counselling practitioners.
ESCO AND THE CONCEPT OF “COMPETENCE”
The development of the the European taxonomy of Skills, Competences,
qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) began in 2010 and remains ongoing.
The overall aim of this initiative is to identify and categorise skills, competences,
qualifications, and occupations relevant to the European labour market and
education and training systems” and to offer a reference system for other
national or sectoral classifications of occupations, qualifications, skills and
competences. Another intention is to provide a common multilingual and
structured terminology" to describe qualifications, occupations, and skills and
competences. In this context skills and competences are seen as a common
denominator that links qualification and occupation descriptions. ESCO views
skills and competences as a kind of “morphemes” (the smallest grammatical
units) of the intended common description language for the labour market and
education and training systems. Since skills and competence descriptions are
used in extremely different application contexts (for example in job placement,
skills forecasting, curricula drafting, qualification assessment, personal CV, HR
documents etc.) there are profound differences in the ways in which they are
For more details see: http://euroguidance.eu/, accessed 13 October 2015.
For more details see: www.elgpn.eu/, accessed 13 October 2015.
For further details see: European Commission, ESCO portal, https://ec.europa.eu/esco/
portal/escopedia/European_Skills%252C_Competences%252C_Qualifications_and_
Occupations_%2528ESC0%2529, accessed 12 October 2015.
1° European Commission, Draft ESCO vision document, ESCO (2014) SEC 039 FINAL, 2, https://
ec.europa.eu/esco/web/guest/escopedia/-/escopedia?p_p_resource_id=fafa3259-3f5b-4355¬
ab02-f8d8ca76606b04_Draft_ESCO_Vision_Document.pdf, accessed 12 October 2015.
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