Career Guidance and WebBased Information Services

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Career Guidance and Web-Based Information Services

• Approaches at the Austrian Employment Service
  (AMS)

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AMS Online Career Information and Guidance
Services
http//www.beruf4u.at
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Characteristics of the Web Based AMS Career
Information Guidance

• AMS offers a wide variety of Online Information
  on occupations, vocational education and training
  and about the labour market.

• These information resources and guidance tools
  are open to the general public and their use is
  free. They are available through

• Any computer with access to the Internet

• Self service computers at AMS career information
  centres and information zones

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Characteristics of the Web Based AMS Career
Information Guidance

• AMS has no System of distance career counselling.
  However Web based tools, tests and information
  databases are used as part of and in connection
  to the counselling process.

• For the integration of these tools into the daily
  work of AMS counsellors training opportunities
  are provided as

• Part of the basic training for new counsellors

• In-house further training courses

• Web-based further training modules in the AMS
  Intranet

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Some Web Based Services offered at the AMS Web
Site

• Berufskompass - an online test suggesting a list
  of occupations based on an analysis of the users
  explicit personal dispositions

• AMS-Berufsinformationssystem - an extensive
  database of occupations with related requirements
  and qualifications and also a source of
  occupational information for other online tools
  like Berufskompass

• AMS-Qualifikationsbarometer - an online database
  that provides detailed information about the
  demand for occupations and qualifications on the
  labour market and expected future trends

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Berufskompass - an Online Test Supporting Career
Guidance
http//www.berufskompass.at
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Berufskompass - an Online Test Supporting Career
Guidance
Summary After completing 75 questions of the
test (about 15-20 minutes) the user can decide to
reduce the number of suggested occupations on the
list according to which level of education should
be required. Then he or she can have a look at
the description of his/her personal results,
compare his/her personal profile with profiles of
suggested occupations or apply additional
filters. Each occupation is linked to the
respective online career information.
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Berufskompass - an Online Test Supporting Career
Guidance
The Elements of Berufskompass
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The AMS-Berufsinformationssystem(Occupational
Information System)
http//www.ams.or.at/bis
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The AMS-Berufsinformationssystem (BIS)
Main Characteristics

• Austrias most extensive database of occupations
  and qualifications

• Content

• 9.000 occupational titles

• 205 qualifications, more than 4.000 detailed
  qualifications

• 600 occupations with details about jobs,
  education training and salaries

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The AMS-Berufsinformationssystem (BIS)
Further Characteristics

• Further Characteristics

• Different possibilities to search

• Key word lists, glossaries

• Print version of pages (pdf)

• Regular revision and update by an editorial team

• A context sensitive help function

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The AMS Skills Barometer (Qualifika-tionsbarometer
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http//www.ams.or.at/qualifikationsbarometer
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The AMS Skills Barometer (Qualifika-tionsbarometer
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Main Characteristics

• The first comprehensive online information system
  for developments in qualification and job market
  requirements in Austria

• Based on Job advertisement surveys analysing 84
  Austrian newspapers and 7 online databases

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The AMS Skills Barometer (Qualifika-tionsbarometer
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Main Characteristics

• Providing an extensive description of labour
  market and qualification trends represented
  according to vocational sectors and vocational
  fields

• Information can be displayed according to regions

• Trend information given according to vocational
  sectors and fields

• Regularly updated data from Job advertisement
  surveys according to vocational sectors and fields

• Labour market trends down to 24 vocational
  sectors and 94 vocational fields

• Links to the AMS occupational Information System
  (Berufsinformationssystem, BIS)

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The AMS Skills Barometer (Qualifika-tionsbarometer
)
Questions answered

• How many vacant positions are available in
  individual vocational sectors and vocational
  fields?

• Are there regional differences?

• How do experts evaluate job market trends for
  individual vocations, vocational fields and
  vocational sectors?

• Which skills and competences are of particular
  importance in individual vocational fields?

• What job requirements do experts predict will
  increase in future?

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Career Guidance and Web-Based Information Services
Thank you for your attention.