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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-4355ab02-f8d8ca76606b04_Draft_ESCO_Vision_Document.pdf, accessed 12 October 2015. * 141 +
