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Experiences of Polish career counsellors
Marcin Szumigraj
University of Zielona Gora
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Counsellor profession
New profession since 1997Present over 2.500 counsellors
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Professional Training
o Studies
Psychology
Education
Sociology
Economyo Extra mural studies
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Workplaces
School Career Offices
Psychological and
Educational Guidance Bureaus
Voluntary Labour Corps
University Career
Bureaus
Army Career Offices
Private Career
Bureaus
Job’s Club
Career Information
and Planning Centres
Labour Department Area
Others
Education Department Area
Labour Offices
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Problem
How do career counsellors experience their own work?
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Method
o What does being in the world look like ?
o Reconstruct actionso Knowledge of the selfo Sociolinguistic analysiso Sociogenetic analysis
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Counsellors' experience
Diversification of guidance Clients’ problems Problems of counsellors’ work Rigid and scary schooling system
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Diversification of guidance
Multitude of institutions Diversified profile of average client Quantity and quality of available
counsellors Negative examples of counsellors
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Clients’ problems
Client does not know this or that
o Choice of schoolo Search instruments to change or find job
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Clients’ problems
Client has a kind of psychological block
o Loss of belief in one’s own potentialo Problems related to internal
experiences of long-term unemployed
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Problems of counsellors’ worko Hurry at worko Diminished comfort of work in
guidance roomso Statistic o No standards of conducto Between two oppositeso What was best is over
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Negative opinions about schooling system
Failing to fulfil its legally established duties
Lack of changes and rigidity of system
No hope for change
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Social experience areas
Preparatory training Place of work The worked time
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Kind of preparatory training
Education study
o Counsellors do not know what he/she is needed for
Psychology study
o Counsellors who resistance toward bureaucracy
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Counsellors‘ place of work
Labour Department Area
Counsellor assured of his/her job safety
Education Department Area
Counsellor is compelled to fight for his professional presence
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Total of the worked time
o Counsellors who have given up and live longing for old days
o Counsellors involved in daily practice
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
Conclusions
o Not a homogenous professional groupo Trouble to identify their professional
identity or purposes of guidance and counselling
o Difficult to cooperation with other circles
o Battlefield of mutual accusations and claims
IAEVG Conference Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling 3-5 June 2009 University of Jyvaskyla
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