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Makale Özeti:
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Lately, economic and demographic tendencies and technological progress are
unrecognizably changing the whole working world structure. Social changes, appearing in
the globalization process, raise new requirements for a man in his career path. In Lithuania,
in the legislation acts on education since 2011, a modern career education understanding has
also been asserted and developed. Career education in the current situation is becoming a
continuous process, which starts in lower secondary schools, is simultaneously carried on in
educational support institutions, continued in vocational education institutions and higher
schools, later moves into lifelong learning space. In this process, a person acquires career
planning and its management abilities, helping him to create and realize career plans
compatible with his personality peculiarities, to accumulate necessary knowledge, skills and
attitudes for the realization of them, abilities to flexibly react to society and labour market
changes, successfully make proper career- related decisions, acquire lifelong learning
motivation. In Lithuanian context, vocational consultation, information and career education
is considered to be one of the most important factors, encouraging employment, workingforce adaptation to market conditions, entrepreneurship and equal possibilities. Therefore,
effectively provided career education services become important both for education system
and labour market and for their interaction. For this purpose, career education system has
been created in Lithuania, which consists of legal basis, career education specialists, career
education service coordination, provision, financing and observation mechanisms. The aim
of this system is to help people consciously choose education and employment opportunities
suitable for them, create conditions for career competence acquisition. Career education
becomes an important teaching and employment policy element at all levels, a constituent
policy part of active labour market.
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