This report presents the findings from a research study that set out to review the range of career guidance provision that supports workforce development across the EU-25 Member States and to identify innovative or ‘best practice’ provisions. The report includes 35 case studies and these provide accounts of practice by employers, trade unions and the public sector as well as other intermediary organisations, such as outplacement consultancies, professional associations and industry sector bodies.

This research builds on the series of studies carried out by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Bank and the European Training Foundation which identified employed people as one of the groups in the population least likely to have access to guidance provision.