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 1997 Present over 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 Economy o 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 actions o Knowledge of the self o Sociolinguistic analysis o 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 school o 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 potential o 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’ work o Hurry at work o Diminished comfort of work in guidance rooms o Statistic o No standards of conduct o Between two opposites o 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 group o 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

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