CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT COUNSELLING PROCESSESS IN ROMANIA. A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

In a labour market in continuing change, career counselling is still a “green field” in many countries, if not at theoretical level, then in what implementation and functionality of organizations concerns. These countries from SEE Area, now, after 20 years from the soft revolutions, are not isolated anymore, and can take over good practices from some countries that have structures – public or private – that are offering career orientation services through their professionals. Such know-how transfer can lead to an earlier implementation of safe and successful programs, in all specialized institutions. The present paper presents in a comparative approach some aspects concerning the implementation of career counselling and orientation in Romania. The first steps of the research were done in the frame of a Leonardo da Vinci Project that investigated the “health” of career counselling in Spain, France, Hungary, Italy and Romania. Later on, through a longitudinal study, we tried to identify the differences between these countries, and to isolate some causes that have lead in Romania to formalism in implementation and to a use, in most of the cases, of “out to date” techniques and procedures.