This document provides information about career guidance services provided by Slovak PES (Public Employment Service). It discusses that Slovak PES has over 230 internal counselors and 60 specialized youth counselors that provide career guidance to 100,000 clients annually, including a special program for 20,000 young people. It also notes that guidance focuses on developing key learning outcomes for clients' identities, strengths, horizons and networks. Examples of measurable employability factors developed through guidance are provided, such as describing motivations/values and setting employment steps. Finally, it introduces a serious game called Job Labyrinth that aims to attract youth to career guidance through gameplay and personal discovery experiences.

1. CAREER GUIDANCE
FORYOUTH AT
SLOVAK PES
EUROGUIDANCE CONFERENCE
SEPTEMBER 2017, BELGRADE
Tomas Sprlak, tomas.sprlak@upsvr,gov.sk

2. WHO WE ARE?
• 230 internal counsellors
• + 60 specialized youth counsellors
• 100 000 clients yearly (40% LTU)
• Special guidance programme for
20 000 young people until 2018
• Motivation to participate: lump sum
(apx. 4€/meeting)

3. PLACEMENT IS NOT THE ONLY
OUTCOME OF GUIDANCE
WHERE
ARE MY
NUMBERS?!

4. LEARNING
OUTCOMES…
OF GUIDANCE?
Identity and motivation
• Who am I?
• What do I want?
Strengths and potential
• What can I offer?
• How can I offer it?
Horizons and planning
• My career goals?
• How to achieve them?
Networks and relations
• Who can help me?
• How to gain and use
contacts?

5. EMPLOYABILITY
FACTORS AS
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
• Knowledge, skills, competences, believes,
attitudes, career competences…
• Clearly linked to success on the labour
market
• Observable, measurable, trackable (test, re-
test)

6. EXAMPLES
• Is able to describe own motivations and values related
to work or personal life
• Is able to tell his life story and describe acquired knowledge
and skills
• Can tell why he is seeking employment in this specific area
• Has set a specific sequence of necessary steps for
approaching the labor market for at least the next three
months
• Can find information on job vacancies at least from two
sources
• Is able to outreach to a potential employer with a
necessary level of communication skills

7. GUIDANCE AS
A LEARNING
PROCESS

8. JOB LABYRINTH
GAME
• A S E R I O U S G A M E
• F U N F A C T O R S
• D E S I G N E D A S P L AT F O R M G A M E F L O W W I T H R P G
E L E M E N T S
• L E A R N I N G P O S S I B I L I T I E S A N D P E R S O N A L
D I S C O V E RY I S T H E A S S E T
• AT T R A C T N E E T S T O T H E S Y S T E M

9. JOB LABYRINTH

10. We work in an organization where paper
is more than a person, process more than
the outcome and indicators more than
real improvement of the human situation.
Every day we fight for a change.
Every day we fight to make labour offices
more human.

11. THANKS
FORYOUR
ATTENTION
• tomas.sprlak@upsvr.gov.sk