!!!IMPORTANT!!!: This is an international version of the GWO program, serving the development of the Bulgarian, Cypriot, Czech, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovak and Spanish versions of the program during the 2001-2004 EC Leonardo da Vinci project Guide to the World of Occupations.
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About GWO
The GWO program is designed for users who need assistance in their occupational
choices and in seeking employment. It offers support in all phases of the career
guidance process: from self awareness, awareness of labour market opportunities,
and career decision making, to implementing decisions and getting appropriate
employment. The first version was developed in the framework of the EC Phare
programme in 1997 by DHV CR as a tool for Information and Counselling Centres by
National Labour Offices in the Czech Republic
To secure further development as well as broader dissemination the programme
gained further funding from the EC Leonardo da Vinci programme in 1999. DHV CR
became a coordinator of the project and the software developer remained, again,
5D software. Besides those two Czech partners, three partners from the UK,
Slovakia and Greece joined the partnership. The project finished in 2001 and
during this period significant new content was added to the programme’s
content as well as giving users
new ways to access it. Apart frome
Czech application, Slovak and Greek applications were also developed during the
project period.
The programme evoked interest in many countries. As a consequence of this
interest 11 partners from 10 countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Cyprus,
Italy, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania and the United Kingdom) set up a
partnership for a follow up project realised again within the framework of the
EC Leonardo da Vinci programme. This project lasted from 2001 to 2004
The objectives of the Guide to the World of Occupations are:
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To offer clients several procedures to
support their occupational choices based on different selection criteria,
including the possibility of
selecting related occupations
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To provide brief and apposite textual information about each
occupation
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To introduce the main work activities in colour photographs and,
for selected occupations, to make the clients acquainted with some activities by
recorded sample work dialogues
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To give clients guidance on how to apply for a job, write a CV or
succeed at an interview
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To advise a client who wants to change his/her occupation to
browse the possibilities of related occupations
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To provide basic information and suggestions to those who want to
start their own business
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To help the unemployed to tackle the problems of their situation
in a positive manner
Special modules of the program cover the specific selection procedures. They are
as follows:
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The module "Graduate" offers advice on searching for a
job, including writing a CV , preparing a job application, preparation for an
interview, and allows the user to search the related occupations, and contains
advice on starting your own business.
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The module "Occupational choices" contains eight
different selection procedures. The procedures are designed to help a client to
choose the most suitable occupation for him/herself. The selected occupations
provide brief descriptions, photographs of the main work activities, in several
cases even recorded sample work dialogues. The module provides links to related
occupations including descriptions of similarities and is specifically focused
on disabled people.
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The module for the "Unemployed" provides advice on how
to cope with and fight against unemployment
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The "Training Module" is designed for guidance
counsellors using the programme in individual or group settings.
Along with the programme users can find out concret information about labour and educational oppartunities in the portal „Career navigator“. The portal contains relevant web links divided into three sections – Career test, Educational opportunities, Job opportunities.
An innovative procedure is being used to create the different national GWO
applications. For this purpose the international source database in English hass
been developed, with an extended database of occupations. For the different
partner countries, only the occupations relevant for the country are made active
in the respective national GWO applications, according to their choice. The
setting of the international source database allows the development of new
national applications for other countries even after completion of the project.
Authors
| Country |
Name |
Organisation |
E-mail |
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| Czech Republik |
Mr. Budsky Simon |
DHV CR (co-ordinator) |
simon.budsky
@europrofis.cz |
| Czech Republik |
Mr. Linhart Ludek |
5D software |
ludek.linhart
@5d.cz |
| Bulgaria |
Ms. Kamburova Nadezda |
Centre for Economic and Strategic Research (CESR) |
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| Cyprus |
Mr. Mitsingas Antonis |
Mitsingas Research and Training Institute – MRTI |
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| Greece |
Ms. Kroustalli Georgia |
Industrial Development & Education Centre – IDEC |
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| Italy |
Mr. Evangelista Leonardo |
Associazione Orientamento in rete - AO |
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| Lithuania |
Ms. Miniotiene Neringa |
National Resource Centre for Vocational Guidance – NRCVG |
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| Romania |
Ms. Jigau Mihai |
National Resource Centre for Vocational Guidance |
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| Slovak Republic |
Mr. Grajcar Stefan |
Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (COLSAF) |
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| Spain |
Mr. Campos José A. |
FASE Formación y Asesores en Selección y Empleo S.L. |
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| United Kingdom |
Mr. Offer Marcus |
National Institute of Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC) |
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