Topics of interest

 1. Paradigm of Career Guidance –
      Recommendations for development of career services at universities in Serbia

  • New paradigm of Career Guidance

  • Lifelong perspectives in Career Guidance

  • Key trends in Career Guidance

  • Traditional and new core role of career services in HE

  • Best practices and models for improved Career services in HE

  • Role of Career Management Skills

  • Serbia within European Paradigm of CGC


2. Key challenges for development of university centers for career development –
    European and Serbian experiences

  • Development of university centers for career development – student perspective – what do students and graduates expect and need from university career centers, what type of support a career center must provide to students and how would an ideal center look like from the angle of student?

  • Development of university centers for career development – employers and strategic partners perspective – good practices of cooperation and how it could be advanced, various survey findings

  • Development of university centers for career development – university perspective – what are the expectations from a successful career center from the view point of university management, teaching staff and vocational higher education institutions? Which segment of the work of career center should be priority? What is more appropriate model: center model or curricular model of career guidance and counseling?

  • Development of university centers for career development – what are the strategic directions for development of career services at universities? What are the core activities and services? What are the challenges to overcome and what are the priorities to be introduced, what are the actions to be undertaken? How to develop a sustainable model of university career center? Examples of good EU practice.

  • Measuring effects of the work of career services – bases for advancement of quality and innovation of programs    


3. Panel discussion:
    Strategic directions for development of career centers at universities

  • University centers for career development - gap analysis

  • Relevant documents and data for drafting Plan for development

  • Recommendations – core activities of university career centers

  • Recommendations – structure and content of the Plan for development

  • Role of career services within universities employability agendas