1. Reorganizing employment
counselling as part of the newly
established public employment
service in Georgia
Tibor Bors Borbely-Pecze, Ph.D.
King Sigismund University, BudapestWED, 16th of November 2016, Room No. #4
2. Rationale
Key functionalities of Public Employment Services
(PES), such as
a) job-brokering,
b) providing labour market information,
c) administrating labour market adjustment
programmes,
d) administrating unemployment benefits
(Thuy et al. ILO, 2001:17)
These also
mean
guidance
3. Core competences of employment
counsellors (DG EMPL, PES Network)
Lukasz Sienkiewicz Core competences in PES …. P2P Dialogue Discussion Paper, June 2013
“As a consequence, the counselling and guidance elements in the job of employment
counsellors are strengthened, leading to a job profile that is a combination of a broker,
counsellor, social worker and administrator.” (PES to PES Dialogue, 2013:20)
4. Association Agreement between
Georgia and EU (2014)
• Article #349` c) of the AA described the
following; “promoting active labour market
measures and efficient employment services,
as appropriate, to modernise the labour
markets and to adapt to labour market needs
of the Parties;`
5. Guidance and Counselling in Georgia
• Post USSR state with a strong intention for central
planning
• Since 2000`s even stronger libertarianism
approach in policy design
• In 2006 closed down the PES
• No body for employment counselling since that
even not in the school system
• No professional training, lack of vocabulary and
lack of tools
• 2014 Resolution of the Government of Georgia
on Guidance and Counselling SYS developments
6. Lifelong Guidance definitions EU and
Georgia
EU definition on lifelong guidance
‘A range of activities (examples include information and advice-giving, counselling,
competence assessment, mentoring, advocacy, teaching decision-making and career
management skills) that enables citizens of any age and at any point in their lives to
identify their capacities, competences and interests, to make educational, training and
occupational decisions and to manage their individual life paths in learning, work and
other settings in which these capacities and competences are learned and/or used.’
(EC resolution 2004)
Georgian definition on lifelong vocational guidance and orientation
‘Lifelong vocational counseling and career planning development connect to each
other: (1) human resources and a possibility of productive application of human
resources; (2) the labour market and a possibility to meet the requirements of the
labour market; (3) employer and job-seeker; (4) profession and (future) professionals;
(5) educational opportunities and applicants. Lifelong vocational counseling and
career planning serve to state interests on the one hand and individual interests of
each person on the other hand.’
(Resolution of the Government of Georgia, #721, December 2014)
7. Same old music has been going on?
• #1 Clear definitions of the European/ global terminologies were not
negotiated between the sides before the Association Agreement was
signed, or at least at the point when its implementation started. For
example, the meaning of PES, LLG, ALMPs where not clearly defined.
• #2 Concerning career guidance and employment counselling existing
competency lists (e.g. IAEVG 2003, CEDEFOP 2009, PES to PES Dialogue,
2013, NICE 2015 …) of such a professionals were not used to map the way
of the government order in Georgia.
• #3 The adaptation process might be too fast, and a word-by-word
translation from usually English to Georgian is not necessarily
interconnected with the development of the Georgian definition and the
adaptation of these new definitions by the Georgian professionals,
• #4 The concept of career guidance and employment counselling in a
region which was under Persian and Russian rule for centuries, and the
development of the free market including the labour and educational
market was limited or almost impossible for a long time, the above
defined terminologies have a different meaning and are difficult to
adapt. … and also laissez faire / libertarianism approach-based economic
policy is well accepted.
