TechCMS (or Technology-enhanced Career Management Skills for Adults) is a project funded by the European Commissions under Erasmus + KEY Action 3 in which they participated 8 different partners from Italy, Greece and Cyprus, including the European Association of Career Guidance and 14 associate Partners from these three countries. All these partners came together with the intention to enhance the capacity of careers workers, through training, to provide CMS guidance to individuals and empower the latter’s CMS through the use of technology.

Definitions of career management skills (CMS) vary across EU member states at national level, and a shared understanding on the meaning of the term is a concern, as it could range from job-search skills to life skills (Sultana 2011). The lack of a European competence framework, results from the fact that “curricular traditions and guidance approaches differ too greatly among member states” (Thomsen 2014). The TechCMS project hereby adopts the European definition, provided by the ELGPN’s Resource kit (2012), referring to career management skills as “a range of competences which provide structured ways for individuals and groups to gather, analyze, synthesize and organize self, educational and occupational information, as well as the skills to make and implement decisions and transitions”. Citizens need to learn CMS to enable them to cope with various challenges throughout their lives, including more frequent career changes, and intensified job insecurity (Sultana, 2012).

Therefore the main aim of the TechCMS project is:

– To develop innovative career guidance services and tools for career management for individuals, for CMS acquisition with the use of ICT

– To provide concrete evidence for policy making and reform on CMS and ICT-informed career guidance, through the TechCMS Catalogue and Learning Model, Policy Roundtables and Policy Recommendations, addressed to policy-makers

– To provide open and distance learning, addressed to careers workers and individuals

For individuals’ questionnaire please click here.
For professionals’ questionnaire please click here.

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Implementation period:  01/01/2020 – 31/10/2022 (34 months)

Website: www.techcms.eu