Leonardo da Vinci in CR international conference -

One example from everyday life of labour offices Guide to the World of Occupations Welcome

Professional Councelling as a special task for PES • PES estabilished in 1991, firstly only basic functions • unexpected baby or an orphan • no experience, no tools but enthusiasm • GWO 1st edition 1997, Phare, PCs • GWO LdV 2nd version, 1998 • competitive products Comdi, ISTP • GWO LdV 3rd version, 10/2004

• • GWO – present functions Basic offer

Selection one ´s occupation

– test of interests – selection by favourite subjects – selection by working dress

Professional orientation

– not decided pupils – pupils with some idea – pupils who need merely a confirmation – pupils with handicaps

GWO – present functions Special offer • 4 types of job applications • CV - composed of 9 parts • instructions for the interview • labour market and its trends • both for individual and group councelling

How GWO is used in ICCs

• MLSA bought the GWO for all 78 PES in the territory in 5/2001 • coucellors were properly trained • pupils operate the programme themselves, they are mostly interested in professional orientation section • basically for pupils, also for students, adults • demo-version on www.volny.cz/psp2/cz

GWO an international product

• UK National Institute for Career Education and Coucelling, Cambridge • GR Industrial Development Centre Piraeus • SK Research Institute of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Bratislava • CZ DHV, Praha and 3 others • problems with national classifications • unified or national version?

Looking forward to GWO 3

• one unified version in national lanuages • UK, BG, CY,E, I, LT, RO, SK and CZ • multimedia database, picture and sound info about 500 – 800 occupations • access by 10 ways, incl. similarity, handi capped… • new modules dealing with interview techniques, selfemployment, training of trainers..

Leonardo da Vinci is a programme deserving thanks and dignition. It works.

David Kafka April 5th, 2004 Thank you for attention, good bye