Career guidance. A resource handbook for low- and middle-income countries

Rapid changes in the labour market and growing youth unemployment present today's policy-makers and programme administrators with major challenges-particularly in the field of career guidance in low- and middle-income countries. Now, a new publication, available from the ILO, provides for the first time a comprehensive roadmap to help professions navigate their way through these issues, combining hands on experience and practical advice with proven administrative tools for making career guidance more relevant and effective

Career Guidance:A resource handbook for low-and middle-income countries" is an essential guide to developing effective career guidance systems, career information, organizing service delivery, staff development and improving governance and coordination. In addition, it also provides the first detailed users guide to career guidance sites on the world wide web that will be invaluable to policy-makers and professional looking for interviewing guides, vocational assessment tools, competency standards for counsellors, and much more.