1. Quality in career guidance

• Quality assurance in career guidance services - a tri-variable model (pdf)
• ISO9001:2000 and Quality in guidance services (pdf)
• A review of NICEC-THE GUIDANCE COUNCIL (2004) CEDEFOP commissioned Preliminary Study on Quality Guidelines and Criteria in Guidance (pdf)

2. EAF Accreditation Framework for the European Career Guidance Practitioners / competence

• EAF Accreditation Framework for the European Career Guidance Practitioners at glance

Preparatory works and story

• How EAF Accreditation Framework for the European Career Guidance Practitioners was developed
• A comment on WP2 (Only PDF, takes some time to download)
• Some Hypothesis on the EAS Framework (Only PDF, takes some time to download)
• MTF, A Possible EAS Framework (Only PDF, takes some time to download)

Current and preliminary research on competence / competencies / accreditation / assessment

• Main dilemmas when accrediting career guidance practitioners. Document prepared for the PEER LEARNING EVENT ON Quality in career guidance and counselling – Towards European frameworks for the training and competence of career guidance practitioners, Cedefop, Thessaloniki, 13-14 October 2008 and A Post-Workshop Comment 85
• The Quest for Competence (PDF)
• Up patriots to arms! Why and how to structure an European framework for accrediting career guidance practitioners 81 (pdf)
• Competencies and Career Guidance (pdf)
• Back to sources: A summary of McClelland, D. C. (1973). Testing for competence rather than for "intelligence." American Psychologist, 28, 1-14.
• Back to sources: Interview with the founding father of the competency approach: David McClelland
• Transfer of qualification in the European Union
• Identification and validation of non-formal and informal learning according to the Council of EU

• A Silent Revolution. The Impact of the Internet on Careers Guidance (120 pages, in zip pdf only)
• Conseil & Orientation par Internet: Est-ce possible? Paris, Jeudi 5 octobre 2006. Programme, diapo
• A final statement on the much debated issue if in depth guidance can be delivered using the internet

4. Other (starting from the more recent)

• Career guidance in Italy (only pdf)
• A general theory of career guidance
• Career checkup: a career guidance tool for supporting employability
• What theory is and how it’s of use
• What does providing career guidance mean in Europe? A Project and a request for funding (pdf)
• European Projects: a nightmare in management
• Career Guidance in European programmes. A confused status (pdf)
• Paradigm shift for guidance - new vision or myth?
• Multicultural career guidance (pdf)
• Employment services in Italy (pdf)
• Good practice in the evaluation of European cooperation projects

5. Index of articles in Italian

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