1. Mr Tibor Bors Borbely (Hungary) www.taninfo.hu borsborbely@yahoo.com Tendencies and practitioners on soft skill development in Hungary 1.(LTC) Long-term training programs Tutor focused counselling Target group: For under classed, poorly verbalised and illiterate, minority students and young adults Working method: personalised definition of the problem, working closed with the client, even escort him / her to public authorities, or career interviews Counselling background: behaviourist Goal: re-socialise, or “after” socialise the client Term: months to years For example: KID 2000 project for romas (Mr. Miklós Kenderfy – Gödöllő)

2. Mr Tibor Bors Borbely (Hungary) www.taninfo.hu borsborbely@yahoo.com Long-term group work Target group: career starters / changers before the retraining programs Working method: 5 hours per day, 25-30 hours per week task focused group work Counselling background: rogersian, humanist Goal: facilitate the decision making process on choosing a new profession or choose additional training in the root profession Term: two to six months For example: young professional program for career starter (TIT, Ms. Miklós Rózsásné -Szombathely) School based counselling Target group: pupils, students Working method: built in curricula (one to four years long) Counselling background: rogersian school and teaching based Goal: facilitate the decision making process on choosing a secondary school or vocation as well as get into the higher education Hidden curricula: develop an independent and assertive personality / citizen Term: one to four school years (two class per week) For example: Secondary School Gödöllő, Tiszaparti Secondary and Vocational School, Szolnok

3. Mr Tibor Bors Borbely (Hungary) www.taninfo.hu borsborbely@yahoo.com 2. (STC) Short-term trainings/ counselling Job Club behaviourist counselling Target group: unemployed Working method: class training + mentorship Counselling background: behaviourist Goal: reach the capability for self-supporting job search Term: one week training (approximately 25-30 hours) + two weeks to six months mentorship (if occasionally it is necessary) For example: National Employment Service, Family Protection Offices of the Local Authorities (Has app. 20-22 clubs all around the country, dealing with 11-15 groups yearly, 10-14 group member each time.) ‘Zuglo’ Family Protection Office, 14th district of Budapest Capital City Job Club, Capital City Employment Service, Budapest

4. Mr Tibor Bors Borbely (Hungary) www.taninfo.hu borsborbely@yahoo.com Employment specialist, professional counsellors Target group: all walks of life, focused on unemployed, career starters, career changers, re-trained employees (before and after the vocational training) Working methods: - Group work (1 to 5 days) or / and - Individual counselling (3 to 30 hours) Counselling methods: focused on humanist approach, also use KABA type[1] soft skill development methodology[1] Goal: develop professional personality, learn to decision-making, and raise coping capacity Term: 3 to 30 hours / client or 6 to 30 hours / group For example: (approximately 100-200 professionals countrywide) Party are engaged for National Employment Service, Family Protection Services, and couple of them are freelancers or work for international or national for-profit organisations.

5. Mr Tibor Bors Borbely (Hungary) www.taninfo.hu borsborbely@yahoo.com 3. (DC&DG) Distance (counselling) / guidance Guidance services Target group: employees, career starters, EU and employment seekers Working methods: via Internet, guidance Counselling background: giving information based / cognitive based Goal: information distributing Term: user regulated For example: Csongrád County Employment Service, Szeged www.npk.huwww.npk.hu (available only Hungarian), TANINFO, Budapest www.taninfo.huwww.taninfo.hu Guidance & chat counselling Target group: Internet users (mostly till the age 35) Working methods: Internet guidance & chat room counselling, occasionally extended with personalised e-mail counselling Counselling background: cognitive based Goal: information distributing, and on-line short tailor-made answers Term: extra short, user regulated For example: FigyelőNet, Budapest www.fn.huwww.fn.hu, direct link: http://fn.hu/cikk.php?id=58&cid=394 to the career experthttp://fn.hu/cikk.php?id=58&cid=394 (Andrea Juhos Dr., Tibor Borbely) (available only Hungarian)