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Career Guidance
refers to services and activities intended to assist individuals, of any age and at any point throughout their lives, to make educational,
training and occupational choices and to manage their careers
[Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 2009]
Career guidance is primarily concerned with realizing
the aspirations and potential of the individual.
Economic Implications of Career Guidance
However, career guidance also offers considerable social and economic benefits for a society.
Primary economic outcomes
• Increased labor market participation• Decreased unemployment• Enhanced skills and knowledge base• Flexible and mobile labor market
Secondary economic outcomes
• Improved health• Decreased crime• Increased tax revenue• Decreased benefit costs