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Newsletter Spring 2018

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NEWSLETTERoftheESDVCEuropeanSocietyforVocationalDesigningandCareerCounsellingINTHISISSUE

§ ESVDCattheICAP,Montréal 2

§ ESVDCattheNICEAcademy2018,Kraków 5

§ ESVDCGeneralAssembly 7

§ ESVDCsupportsECADOC 8

§ ESVDCEarlyCareerResearchersAward:callfornominations 10

§ 2018membershipfees 11


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ESVDCattheICAP2018,MontréalTWOSYMPOSIAANDAKEYNOTELECTUREATTHE29thINTERNATIONALCONGRESSOFAPPLIEDPSYCHOLOGYTheESVDCwill takeonanactiverole in the upcoming 29thInternational Congress ofApplied psychology (ICAP)“Psychology: ConnectingSciencetoSolutions”,whichwillbe held in Montreal from June26thtoJune30th2018:http://www.icap2018.com/GudbjörgVilhjálmsdóttirisgoingtopresentasinviteddivisionalkeynotespeaker:

“NARRATIVESEMIOTICSANDTHECAREERCONSTRUCTIONINTERVIEW”Narrative counseling is increasingly used in career counselling. One can speak of a‘narrative turn’. Many techniques have been developed in recent years, of which MarkSavickas’sCareerConstruction Interview(CCI) isoneof themost theoreticallyelaborate.Thoughnarrativecounselingandnarrativepsychologyhaveusedtheoriesandtechniquesfromliterarystudies,thereisstillmuchtolearnfromthem.Basedonmyexperienceasacounselor and onmy recent research Iwill discuss how the use of a certain number ofconceptsandtechniquesassociatedwiththenarrativesemioticsofA.J.Greimascanrefineand enrich narrative counseling, with special regard to Savickas's Career ConstructionInterview(CCI).InparticularIwilldemonstratethattraininginthesystematicsearchforso-calledisotopiesandtheuseoftheanalytictoolsoftheactantialmodelandthesemioticsquare can improve counselors’ ability to help their clients construct ameaningful storyoutoftheirlivesandsetoutapathwaytoattainfuturegoals.


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LauraNotaandJérômeRossieraregoingtochairtheinvitedsymposium:

“CAREERPATHSANDINTERVENTIONSFORADECENTWORKANDANINCLUSIVESOCIETY”

Abstract:Thecurrentsocietiesarecharacterizedbyhighheterogeneityandsuper-diversitydue to a plot of variables associated with nationality, ethnicity, language, religion,migration paths, disability, etc. Work contexts are representative of this socialheterogeneity and complexity, and similarly to social contexts, this variability should berespected,valued,andrecognizedasaresourceandastrength.Unfortunately,phenomenaofmicroandmacroexclusionagainst individualswithvulnerability are still existingandmore frequently theyexperience indecentworkandmorebarriers in the labourmarket.Thisisanimportanttopic,asdeterminantsperspectiveonhealthseesinclusionascentraltothewellbeingofindividualsandsociety.Basedon this, careerpractitioners,professionals interested to individuals’wellbeingandfuture should be involved, identifying innovative theories and developing effectivestrategiestohelpallindividuals,andinparticularthosewithvulnerability,togainaccesstodecentworkandpromotesatisfactoryfuturelife.In this symposium, the role of some positive dimensions and several actions andinterventions to promote future and career life design process of different groups withvulnerabilitywill be discussed.More specifically, the first presentationwill focus on therole of precarious employees’ profile to increase job insecurity and the role of careeradaptability to prevent these negative effects. Then, the role of courage in life designprocess of individuals with Substance Use Disorder will be discussed. In the third andfourth presentation, attention will be given to career actions and interventions for thebenefit of other vulnerable groups of individuals, i.e. immigrants and youngpeoplewithlowsocioeconomicstatus.Inthelastpresentation,thecareerandworkforcedevelopmentpoliciesandpracticesof50autonomousstatesinU.S.willbediscussed.Presentationswithinthesymposium:1. Thedynamicsofperceivedjobinsecurity:AlongitudinalcomparativestudyamongSwiss

employees,byIevaUrbanaviciute,ShaginiUdayar,ChristianMaggiori,JonasMasdonati,&JérômeRossier.

2. Workand social inclusion: the roleof courage in lifedesignprocessof individualswithsubstanceusedisorder,byIlariaDiMaggio,MariaCristinaGinevra,SaraSantilli,&LauraNota.

3. Career construction through relationship support: The case of immigrant youth, byRichard A. Young, José D. Domene, Natalee Popadiuk, Yan Liu, Magali Chevalier,Meredith MacKenzie, Marcos Lanner de Moura, Kesha Pradhan, Rosalynn Record-Lemon,&VanessaSilva.

4. Career education program for students from low SES background – the role of schoolmanagerialteam,byRachelGaliCinamon.

5. Supporting state leaders ccquisition of innovative and inclusive career developmentpracticesthatpromoteaccesstodecentworkforhighneedyouth,byScottH.Solberg&JudithMartin.


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ValérieCohen-ScaliJacquesPouyaudaregoingtochairtheinvitedsymposium:

“PERCEPTIONOFWORKANDTHEFUTUREAMONGLOWQUALIFIEDYOUTHSINNORTHERNANDSOUTHERNCOUNTRIES:FIRSTRESULTS

OFANINTERNATIONALQUALITATIVERESEARCHPROJECT”Abstract: The globalization of the economy has led, inmany countries, to an increase inprecariousworkandtheinformaleconomy.Youngpeopleareamongthemostaffectedbythese changes in the world of work and few of them are employed in decent work. Aqualitative research project has been implemented on both objective and subjectiveaspects of work among a population of young workers with low levels of education indifferent parts of theworld. The symposium aims are to present the first results of ourresearch findings and to draw new lines of career counseling interventions for youngpeople in precarious work situations. The presentations underline the diversity ofrepresentationsofworkamongyoungworkersandalsoshowsomecoreaspectsofthem.Thesymposiummustprovidenewperspectivetostudyworkandenrichthedefinitionofdecent work taking into account the subjective relationship to work of individuals indifferent parts of the world. David Blustein will discuss the results of these differentresearchstudiesandprovidesomeinsightsaboutthelinestodrawforthefutureincareercounselingpolicyandpractice.Presentationswithinthesymposium:1. “Thisis‘in-betweenwork’…youmightworkhereforayearandthenyoufindsomething

else”:Representationsofdecentworkamongyoungpeoplewith lowemployment skills,byGuðbjörgVilhjálmsdóttir.

2. Representationsofworkamongyoungadults inEuropeandAfricaandperspectivesforcareer counseling, by Valérie Cohen-Scali, Laurence Cocandeau-Bellanger, SoazigDisquay-Perot,JonasMasdonati,&IssaAbdouMoumoula.

3. The identity construction--cultural context–aspirational desire triangle in the workinglivesofdisadvantagedruralemergingadults,byDonnaSanAntonio

4. Perception of decent work and the future among low qualified youths in Brazil andPortugal: Preliminary results, by Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro, Paulo Cardoso, & MariaEduardaDuarte.

http://icap2018.com/


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ESVDCattheNICEFoundationAcademy2018,KrakówASYMPOSIUMATTHEACADEMYOFTHENETWORKFORINNOVATIONINCAREERGUIDANCEANDCOUNSELLINGINEUROPETheESVDCwill support andparticipate in the upcomingAcademy of the Network forInnovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE) “Fostering thedialogue between science and practice in career guidance and counselling”,whichwill be held at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, from September 6th toSeptember8th2018(http://www.nice-krakow2018.confer.uj.edu.pl/).Moreover,theEVDCgeneralassemblywillbeheldduringtheconference.

JonasMasdonatiisgoingtochairthesymposium

“EMERGINGISSUESINCAREERCOUNSELING:CHALLENGESFORINTERVENTIONANDTRAINING”(Discussant:LauraNota)

Abstract. Career counseling (CC) is facing emerging issues that confront its aims,techniques,andtrainingstrategies.Withinanunpredictableandchangingworldofwork,thepurposesofcounselingshouldbetopromotesustainablecareersanddecentwork,i.e.toprevent threateningworkingconditionsandhelppeoplemanage flexiblecareeror lifepaths. Counseling today also means situating clients’ needs, problems and solutionsaccordingtotheirlifeandculturalcontext,butalsowithintheglobalchallengestheworldisfacing.CCgoalsshouldthennotonlyfocusonclients’worksatisfaction,butalsoontheirlife satisfaction, and on a sort of “sustainable satisfaction”—which, e.g., leads to theconsideration of the impacts of individual choices on their environment and on broaderglobalissues.Inordertoreachtheseambitiousgoals,thereisaneedbothtodevelopandvalidatenewinterventiontoolsandtechniques,andtoreexaminethewaycareercounseloraretrained.Accordingly, the four communications of the ESVDC symposium address the followingquestions:(1)whatarethegoalsofCC?(2)Howcanwereachthesesgoals?(3)Howcanwetraincounselorstobeabletoreachthesesgoals?Wewill thensharenewinsightsonthe redefinition of CC aims, on innovative CC tools and techniques, and on effectiveteachingandtrainingstrategies.


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Presentationswithinthesymposium:

1. Howdoweensurethatourqualitativeassessmentmethods,inpracticeandresearcharebothrigorousandtrustworthy?ByHazelReid.

2. New trajectories for an inclusive and sustainable future in career counseling andvocational guidance, by Laura Nota, Salvatore Soresi, Maria Cristina Ginevra, SaraSantilli,&IlariaDiMaggio.

3. Health promotion during vocational training: An educational training device forconstructingdecentworkplaceforfuturegeneration,byLaurenceBergugnat&JacquesPouyaud.

4. From doing counseling to becoming counselor: Learning processes and outcomes of acareercounselingtrainingprogram,byJonasMasdonati&KooroshMassoudi.

http://www.nice-krakow2018.confer.uj.edu.pl/

Noteconcerningthe“signoff”fortheNICEFoundationHazelReidastheESVDCboardmemberservingontheboardofNICE,attendedthemeetingwith colleagues and theNotary inHaarlem lastmonthwhere the 'sign off' for theNICEFoundationtookplace.


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AmessagefromtheESVDCExecutiveBoardESVDCGENERALASSEMBLYDearESVDCmembers,DuringtheNICEAcademy“Fosteringthedialoguebetweenscienceandpracticeincareerguidance and counselling” (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, September 6-8,2018)thenextESVDCGeneralAssemblywillbeheld.During theGeneralAssembly, the2018ESVDCAward forDistinguishedContributions toVocationalDesigningandCareerCounsellingandthe2018ESVDCAwardforearlycareerresearchers will be assigned. Additionally, the ESVDC annual report and the financialreport2017willbereported.StrategiesforsupportingandpromotingESVDCin2019willbediscussed.Weinviteallmemberstoparticipateinthisimportantevent.Cordially,ESVDCExecutiveBoard


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ESVDCsupportsECADOCEUROPEANDOCTORALPROGRAMMEINCAREERGUIDANCEANDCOUNSELLINGSUMMERSCHOOLINATHENS2018

This June the fifthECADOCSummerSchoolwill takeplace inAthens,Greece, hosted theLaboratoryof CareerGuidance andCounselling “MichaelKassotakis” of theNational andKapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. The summer school is addressed to PhDstudentsfromallovertheworldwhoareconductingresearchinthebroadareaofcareerguidanceandcounselling.ThroughthiscoursePhDstudentscanbroadenanddeepentheirknowledge and skills in career counselling and guidance, contemporary issues of careercounselling,advancedqualitativeandquantitativeresearchmethods,etc.PhDstudentswillbeexposedtolearningsituationswheretheywillbechallengedtoperceiveandreflectondifferent aspects of career guidance and counselling. Counselling and Guidance expertsfromallovertheworldwillcollaboratewithPhDstudentsinordertohelpthemadvanceintheir own careers. Additionally, PhD studentswill have the chance to present their ownworkanddiscussitwiththeircolleaguesfromvariouscountriesandculturalbackgrounds.WhatisECADOC?

The European Doctoral Programme in CareerGuidanceandCounselling (ECADOC)aims to trainfuture academic and practitioner leaders in thefieldofcareerguidanceandcounsellingtobecomeinterdisciplinary researchers with strongleadership and teaching competences. Theprogramme is a joint initiative of the EuropeanSociety for Vocational Designing and CareerCounseling (ESVDC) and the Foundation of theNetwork for Innovation in Career Guidance andCounselling in Europe (NICE Foundation), and is


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supportedbyhighereducationinstitutionsfrommorethan10Europeancountries.Sofar,four ECADOC summer schools (Padua 2014, Paris 2015, Lausanne 2016, & Mannheim,2017) havebeenorganized, involving about 120PhD and senior researchers frommorethan30countries.SummerSchool’sconcept

Thesummerschool isabout thechallenges facedby thecareercounsellingandguidancediscipline,aswellasprofessionalswithinthisfield,astheyconstructtheircareerswithinafluid,pluralanddiverseworldofwork in the21stcentury. In timeswherepeople’s livesarebecoming increasinglydynamic, researchersandpractitionersengaged inCounselingandCareerGuidanceneedtochallenge,adaptanddeveloptheirunderstandings,methodsandservicesaccordingly.Moreover,theymustreflecttheirownandcollectivestandpointsindiscourseson these issues,whicharealso influencedbydiversepolitical agendasandnormativeideologies.MorethantwentyPhDstudentsfromvariouscountrieswillbeselectedasparticipantstopresent their research projects, network, and create innovative research teams tocollaborate on issues that affect career research, policy and practice. PhD students willhavethechancetomeetresearchersfromdifferentbackgroundswithdiverseexperience,listen to interesting inputs around the themeof the summer school,workwithdifferentresearchmethods,andlearnaboutthepracticalchallengesofbeingaresearcher.


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REMINDER1:Callfornominations2018EARLYCAREERRESEARCHERSAWARDThe ESVDC aims, among others, to promote research in the broad field of vocationaldesigningandcareercounseling.ESVDCchosetocreateaspecialawardforpeoplewhoareengaged in this fieldof researchandrecentlyearnedaPhDdegree.ThisawardwillrecognizetheirexcellentcontributiontothefieldofVocationalDesigningandCareerCounselingresearch.Thecompetitionforthisawardisopentonon-tenuredearlycareerresearchersworkinginEuropewhoearned theirPhDdegree (doctorate) afterMarch1st, 2015.CandidatesmaycomefromanycountryandcanbeESVDCmembersaswellasnon-members.Researchersholding – at the moment of the application deadline (Mai 31st, 2018) – a temporaryteaching or research contract or a grant at public or private research institutes anduniversitiesorother institutionsofhighereducationareeligible.Tenuredstaffor facultymemberscannotparticipateinthecompetition.Applicantsshouldsubmitthefollowingdocuments:1. A request to participate to the “ESVDC Early Career Researchers Award” (indicating

name,surname,educationandposition),certifyingsatisfactionofeligibilitycriteria;2. Adetaileddescription(inEnglish)oftheresearchsubmittedtotheselectionprocedure

(nolongerthan2000words).Thisshouldincludea. Anintroduction,b. Hypotheses,c. Participantsandmeasures,d. Procedureanddataanalysis,e. Results,f. Conclusions;

3. ACVthatgivesspecialattentiontotheirpublications.

PleasesubmittheapplicationelectronicallytoESVDC(mail: [email protected])byMai31st,2018andspecifytheobject:“ESVDCEarlyCareerResearchersAward”.Anadhoccommitteewillevaluatemanuscripts.ParticipantswillbenotifiedontheresultsoftheselectionprocedurebytheendofJuly2018.RecipientsoftheawardwillbefeaturedintheESVDCNewsletterandhonoredatthenextESVDCGeneralAssembly.


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REMINDER22018MEMBERSHIPFEESThefinancialsituationofESVDCissatisfactory.Howeverweneedtoaskyoufortheannualmembershipfeesaccordingtoourstatutes.Asareminder:• Fullmembershipfeeis€50,00• Associatemembershipfeeis€30,00TheESVDCbankaccountis:CREDITSUISSEAccountNr.:0525-1375350-01IBANCode:CH4404835137535001000BIC:CRESCHZZ10RThebanktransferchargesarebornebytheassociation.Theamountisdueandpayableby31Julyfor2018.Thankyouallinadvance!

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