Project Outputs
Services Package on Career Guidance and Development
This intellectual output is a response to the radical and rapid perspective of digital and green transformation that SMEs are facing. To maintain their employability, SMEs workers must be involved in lifelong learning paths. Career guidance and career counseling services play a crucial role in supporting decisions about further learning (Cedefop, Improving career prospects.., 2016). Therefore, the output is a package of guidance and career development (CGD) services for SMEs low-skilled workers. It is a set of practical tools that CGD operators and VET trainers can use when providing CGD services addressed to SMEs workers in low-skilled positions. It also provides supportive guidance on the roadmapping process that produces a list of skills and job profiles that will be required by SMEs in the future.
The Output is a range of services available online that CGD operators and VET trainers will use to assist and support low-skilled workers in SMEs. It is made by the following sections:
Introduction to the Pathway.
Guidelines for the Use of the Tools for CGD Operators and Trainers: these are in the form of text, references to the tools, and instructions about how to manage the practical activities addressed to the workers, for CGD operators and VET trainers.
Professional Operators Tools: these contain the various tools used by CGD operators and VET trainers for the self-assessment-reflection phases, personal visioning support, personal development plan, etc. These tools contain practical activities, grids, questionnaires, checklists, exercises, self-awareness notebooks, etc. These are divided into two documents: Self-development Notebook and 10 Practical Activities.
Handbook about Advantages to Have Dynamic Workers That Develop Themselves: this handbook introduces the benefits of working with educated workers for employers.
Services Design Handbook: it contains the description of the services (self-assessment, professional self-awareness journey, personal development plan etc). It describes: the satisfied needs and the created value, the delivery process, the involved CGD operators and VET trainers and their roles, the delivery methods. It is very helpful to implement the services.
Future Competencies: a collection of enabling skills emerging from the future. These are the skills that the participating SMEs need coming from the foresight and Roadmapping process. Also, the findings that emerged from the PESTEL analysis carried out in each country (Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic) are available to the worker to facilitate the decision process.
Toolkit for Workers
This project output is a set of experiential tools for SMEs low-skilled workers to be used independently to develop the key competence called “personal, social and learning to learn competence”. Through these tools workers can increase their professional self-awareness, develop a personal vision and a career development plan, effectively manage time and information, work with others in a productive way, manage their learning process and career. The Toolkit also includes practical tools to develop the ability to cope with uncertainty and complexity, to learn to learn, to maintain physical and emotional well-being, to develop empathy and to manage conflict. It can be defined as ANTI-FRAGILE as it is thought to make workers more resilient.
The Toolkit contains OERs for autonomy use (self-learning) on:
Self-reflection, increasing professional self-awareness, developing a personal vision, developing a career plan;
How to manage one’s own learning path (permanent learning) and career;
How to manage time and information;
How to work with other people in an effective way;
- How to deal with uncertainty;
How to achieve physical and emotional well-being;
How to be empathic.
The OERs consist of short introduction videos, learning materials, and quizzes to be easy to understand, interesting, and interactive.
Communication Campaign
The last project output is a set of practical guidelines on how to create a communication plan, followed by set of examples of graphical materials. More than 15 concrete infographics are ready to use by SMEs and complemented with the user guide to motivate their workers to further educate themselves.
The Communication Plan Guidelines contain:
Steps and areas of action packed in Communication Plan Guidelines that can help to create more and better learning opportunities for adults with low skills and also possible tools to be used.
Practical Graphic Examples that are mainly in form of infographics, call-to-action pictures or leaflets which can be used directly in the company’s own communication campaign without further modifications.
The Graphic Materials Guide that helps to reach employees’ goals via several graphic materials already provided.
