National Report on the Career Education and Training in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Challenges and Prospects - Regional Event for South East Asia
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Career guidance and employment services
Career guidance and counselling, career education and lifelong development of skills for employability are key for success in learning activities, effective career transitions, livelihood planning, entrepreneurship and in increasing labour market participation. They are instrumental in promoting skills utilization, recognition (RPL), as well as in improving enterprise human resource management.
Career development activities encompass a wide variety of support activities including career information and advice, counselling, work exposure (e.g. job shadowing, work experience periods), assessment, coaching, mentoring, professional networking, advocacy, basic and employability skills training (curricular and non-curricular) and entrepreneurship training. It is often an area which is fragmented across different ministries (e.g. education, TVET, employment, youth) requiring an effort to achieve the necessary coordination to provide adequate support to individuals during learning, employment and unemployment/inactivity periods.
As the official regional focal points for Southeast Asia, the National Youth Policy Institute of South Korea (NYPI) and the Asian Regional Association for Career Development (ARACD) will promote global and regional events as follows:
As part of global and regional events, the NYPI and ARACD will jointly run a webinar in November. The theme of the webinar is “Career Education and Training in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Challenges and Prospects,” where we will be discussing the challenges, practices, and initiatives of Asian countries in enabling and promoting career-related education and training for young people and adults in the aftermath of COVID-19.
To this end, we organized a webinar where career experts from South Korea, Pakistan, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia and India present the following issues:
- the significant challenges of the home country in enabling and promoting career-related education and training for young people and adults in the aftermath of COVID-19;
- the practices and initiatives of the home country to overcome the said challenges and promote career development support in the aftermath of COVID-19; and
- the quality standards and the skills of career guidance practitioners for our society to transform into a more sustainable, resilient, and digital-rich one.
Times:
Monday, 28 Nov 2022 14:00~16:00 (KST)
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84038167371
Career guidance
Asia and the Pacific
