Challenges Addressed
5/14
- Blended counselling
- Exchange and knowledge transfer (among educational professionals, guidance counsellors, etc.)
- Facilitation of transition from school education to career selection
- Improve matching between skills and jobs
- Improvement of guidance/ employment services
- Increase the interaction between schools and professional life
- Increase the mobility of people in Europe for education and employment purposes
- Promote self-assessment
- Provision of low-threshold information on educational guidance to disadvantaged adult populations
- Raise awareness on guidance
- Reduce early school leaving
- Support those wishing to re-enter the labour market
- Tackling unemployment
- Target unemployment
Exchange and knowledge transfer (among educational professionals, guidance counsellors, etc.)
Facilitation of transition from school education to career selection
Improve matching between skills and jobs
Improvement of guidance/ employment services
Raise awareness on guidance
- TET-tori aims to facilitate school counsellors, students and parents to find appropriate Practical Professional Orientation Periods (PPO);
- TET-tori helps companies to easily create contacts with pupils and bring working life closer to school;
- The tool is structured according to geographic regions and supports education guidance provision by supporting the implementation of the practical professional orientation.
Policy objectives
7/15
- Access to Lifelong Guidance Services
- Assessing the effectiveness of Lifelong Guidance Provision
- Assuring the quality of Lifelong Guidance Provision
- Career Management Skills
- Contributing the rise of mobility of people in Europe for education and employment purposes
- Funding Lifelong Guidance Services
- ICT in Lifelong Guidance
- Improving careers information
- Improving employability and supporting older workers
- Interactive online tools
- Raising the skills and qualifications of adults
- Raising the skills and qualifications of young people
- Strategic Leadership
- Supporting people at risk and disadvantaged groups
- Training and Qualifications of Guidance Practitioners
Access to Lifelong Guidance Services
Career Management Skills
Funding Lifelong Guidance Services
Improving careers information
Strategic Leadership
Supporting people at risk and disadvantaged groups
Training and Qualifications of Guidance Practitioners
INNOVATIVE ASPECTS OF LMI
6/21
- Blended counselling
- Creation of ePortfolios with students' skills and competences
- Crowed sourcing of expert knowledge on educational guidance
- Customisation of LMI through the users' adaptation according to their needs
- Data entered by end-users
- Effective job matching
- Guidance methods
- Informal LMI
- Innovative user profiling
- Interoperability with job-search engines
- Life course related filtering of LMI
- Matching of regional education to labour market
- News relevant to educational guidance
- Occupational information
- One-stop-shop
- Personalised educational advice
- Provision of additional information on the awards not available elsewhere, to make it easily understood to employers and institutions in other countries
- Provision of external links to available EC employment, guidance and educational services
- Real time LMI
- Scientific research on guidance
- Thematic compilation of third party LMI
Blended counselling
Effective job matching
Interoperability with job-search engines
Occupational information
Personalised educational advice
Real time LMI
- Information about local employers and PPO vacancies: TET-tori brings together over 5 500 companies and jobs, broken down by field of study;
- Information on occupations and respective education requirements: Descriptions of over 500 professions and of about 100 occupational fields are included;
- Information on the study options in the Finnish education system;
- Assessment of students’ performance during their PPO period.
TET-tori uses mainly ministerial LMI sources (the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Employment and the Economy) and national datasets.
INNOVATIVE USE OF ICT
5/13
- Combination with offline elements
- Connection with third parties (LMI, PES, etc.)
- Customized RSS feed
- Dynamic interconnection of electronic resources according to a life course approach
- e-portfolio
- Interactive online tools
- Mobile app
- Online counselling
- Online wiki
- Open source
- Personalised information storage
- Quick diagnosis tool
- Social media utilisation
Combination with offline elements
Connection with third parties (LMI, PES, etc.)
Interactive online tools
Online wiki
Social media utilisation
- TET-tori uses a platform provided by Peda.net, a website that provides easy-to-use online tools as well as training, research and development services. The University of Jyvaskyla has the overall responsibility of the administration, maintenance and development of Peda.net.
- From a technical point of view, TET-tori is based on open standards (e.g. HTML), but the tools themselves are not open source products.
- There is a high level of user-friendliness as TET-tori offers two different navigation bars.
- There are no personal user details collected from TET-tori.
Results and impacts obtained
Quantitative results: the TET-tori service is currently being used in more than 40 regions of Finland and over 3 500 companies participate in the platform.
Qualitative outcomes:
- promotion of students’ CMS and employability skills development;
- improvement of the students' transition skills;
- reduction of school dropout rates;
- acknowledgement by the employers of the joint social responsibility of supporting the young people in transition from education to work;
- awareness raising on the importance of: (i) guidance practices, and (ii) the PPO periods and their respective activities;
- facilitation of the implementation process of the PPO periods;
- increase of the participation of the business community in regional career education activities.
Evaluation process: i) via schools that collect data from all stakeholders including students, parents and employers on students PPO periods. Collection via desktop based online tools plus currently via mobile devices. Ii) the TET-tori steering group that, through the participation of school counsellors, allow the collection of users’ feedback regarding the effectiveness of the practice.
Success Factors
- Role of career education as a distinct and compulsory subject in the school curricula in Finland and role of the PPO periods as compulsory, stable and clearly defined parts of the basic education core curriculum;
- Provides a continuum in the development of employability and career management skills;
- Combination with the provision of support by trained school counsellors;
- Collaboration with all target groups and a common understanding of the service's need;
- Very good understanding of the local context;
- Tool's design was based on research findings in relation to the use of technology in guidance;
- Highly scalable and easily adjusted to guidance and training activities of different regions;
- Single access point of LMI;
- Schedules the implementation of PPO periods between local schools and companies;
- Existence of several publicly funded websites that can offer the required LMI to the tool;
- Regional LLG working groups that aim to stimulate positive regional LLG developments.
Points of Attention
- Future reduction of funding of education through the municipal budget.
- Information on regional companies’ and their offered PPO placements is provided on the employers’ own initiative
Transferability elements
TET-tori is highly relevant to the role of ICT and LMI practices within career guidance in Finland, since it collects and disseminates educational and labour market information via the web that has both regional and national scope.
A new region wishing to use the tool should cover a registration fee of approximately EUR 2 000 so that the tool is adjusted to include the initial region-specific content, while an annual operational fee of EUR 80 is required for system maintenance.
For the daily operation and maintenance of the TET-tori practice currently one part time employee is required. Although there is no specific staff profile, the person in charge of the operation of the platform has expertise in:
- Design and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in career services;
- Social Media in guidance - Guidance in Social Media;
- Ethical issues associated with ICT in guidance and counselling;
- The role of ICT in relation to national lifelong guidance policies.
Regarding the TET-tori project team staff, there is no special training offered.
- The technological infrastructure required for the initial development and for the operation and maintenance of the tool does not exceed the requirements of a simple website, namely: (i) a front and back end webserver; (ii) a database; and (iii) a Content Management System.
- The software products used for the development of TET-tori are based on open standards. The merge of the LMI from multiple sources and its redirection to the tool users is made via direct links and RSS feeds.
- The use of the practice from its target groups does not require advanced e-skills or technical infrastructure.
Students can use the tool either individually or in cooperation with their school counsellor.
- Implementation of online services and their access to public;
- Trend for more customised individual learning programmes for students affecting career education and relevant ICT and LMI guidance tools;
- A new version of the service is under construction and will be launched in early 2017 with a series of improvements, including its content and overall structure.
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