出版社：National Research University Higher School of Economics
摘要：Career development has become a process of managing learning, experience, and change in order to achieve a personally determined, preferred professional future. In the context of dynamic social, economic, and technological changes, the role of career counseling services increases, although their character also evolves. New competences and abilities to use innovative tools that enable effective processes of creating career visions in a systemic manner are expected. In this context, the adaptation of Futures Studies to both practice and education of career counseling seems to be an interesting prospect. Exploring the future not only develops individual planning and adaptation skills, but also allows for detecting and identifying upcoming trends. It means the ability to adapt to new conditions, or the proactive creation of the future, in a way that is favorable. The aim of this article is to present a comprehensive methodology and the results of a nationwide survey conducted in Poland among practitioners in the field of career counseling. The scope of the study included an exploration of the potential of the application of a foresight methodology and future studies for education and practice in the field of career counseling. The main focus of this research to examine the current quality and scope of educational offers for career counselors by the disconfirmation between the ideal features of the courses and the individual perception of the completed courses, in the context of building the abilities to apply future-oriented methodologies and tools. Competences in this area were also examined by assessing both their level among the practitioners and the assessment of their suitability in career counseling practice. The quantitative research was supported by individual interviews with practitioners and experts in the area of career counseling.
