
GUIDE
upgrading the skills of professionals for gender sensitive career guidance!
Guide focuses on increasing the awareness of gender bias and barriers in career counselling.


what we aim!

GUIDE focuses on the issue of gender and career development and the continuing barriers to achieving equality of opportunity in this area. For this purpose, it is important Career Guidance Professionals (CGP) to adopt a gender sensitive approach and avoid using stereotypes when supporting individuals in making their career decisions.
We aim to help career counselors to move away from biases based on traditional roles which can limit choices to ensure that equal opportunities are offered to all genders without taping the human talent and resources. Let’s ensure all gender are enabled to choose among opportunities on the basis of interest and ability rather than gender.

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GUIDE will develop and make available to CGPs, to Universities, and other training providers a set of learning resources and methods to support all genders make a career decision without using gender stereotypes.
Gender influences a wide range of career-related attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes. This includes career choice, career experiences, work attitudes, other people’s perceptions, and career outcomes. Therefore, to understand individuals’ careers, it is important to consider gender.
Gender sensitive approaches regarding career choices refer to methodologies and practices applied to ensure all genders’ concerns, aspirations, opportunities, and capacities are considered.
Professionals with career guidance responsibilities should be gender neutral and be able to help all genders to acquire the knowledge, information, skills, and experience necessary to identify career options and narrow them down to make a career decision, without using gender stereotypes.
It is important career counselors to adopt a gender sensitive approach and avoid using stereotypes when supporting individuals in making their career decisions.
Professionals with career guidance responsibilities need to hold and share the knowledge about the effects of gender, particularly its impact on the vocational development of young people.
to be produced
This Digital tool aims to assist professionals with career guidance responsibilities (career counsellors / teachers / advisors etc.) in exploring and identifying gender stereotypes and barriers which all genders may have and affect their decision, regarding their professional career.
This Digital tool aims to identify the way individuals takes their decisions regarding their professional career – Career Decision - Making Styles - and in what way their decision-making style is being influenced by their stereotypes.
This Online Training Programme aims to upgrade the skills of professionals / teachers in career guidance, so as to be able to identify gender stereotypes which all genders (may) have and implement gender sensitive approaches and tools for helping them to choose their career path.
This Toolkit aims to support professionals in career guidance addressing the topic of gender stereotypes and equality.
A step-by-step guide designed to boost the gender sensitive career guidance in higher education, other training providers and organisations and professionals in career guidance.
