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The Experience of IEKEP

IEKEP has an expertise as well as a long experience in career guidance.

  • It was member of the Lifelong Guidance Expert Group of the European Commission (2002-2006)
  • IEKEP provides training courses on Career Counselling (it has trained approximately 150 counsellors since 1992)
  • Career Guidance constitutes a core element in all IEKEP activities (research activities, educational material, integrated projects, Leonardo Da Vinci projects, etc).
  • IEKEP has produced Educational Material for Careers Education that has been mainstreamed into the Official School Curriculum.
  • It has conducted, by CEDEFOP appointment, all research activities and country studies on Career Guidance
  • It has also undertaken numerous studies on Vocational Guidance issues, by appointment of the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs.
  • IEKEP has been the Technical and Scientific Consultant of the National Centre for Career Guidance, within the framework of the Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training (2003)
  • It has conducted, by appointement from the Greek National Centre of Career Guidance, a research activity on "International Systems of Quality Assurance for Career Guidance Services (2007)

Career Guidance Services

Career guidance provided by IEKEP is a procedure that helps people to:

  • Increase awareness and assess their personal traits ( interests, values, performance, etc)
  • Get occupational and educational information
  • Match their personal traits to potential educational/ career choices
  • Take educational and career decisions
  • Manage transitions and cope with practical issues related to them
  • Make an action plan
  • Career guidance is provided individually or in group.

Employment Counselling Services

IEKEP provides counselling and training services facilitating the integration of young people into the labor market. These services include: 

  • Career planning
  • CV writing
  • Skills for job seeking