The BeQu Concept for Quality Development in Career Guidance and Counselling in Germany: The BeQu Quality Standards and the Competence Profile for Guidance Practitioners

Good Guidance Serves Individuals and Society


Good guidance1 makes an important contribution to the autonomy with which individuals make their career decisions – no matter whether these are taken during school education, vocational training, or higher education, at career entry or in times of professional re-orientation. Good guidance paves the way for a self-determined life, for success and satisfaction in one’s working life. Furthermore, guidance serves major societal goals like increasing educational participation, securing the growing demand for skilled labour, preventing dropout from education and training, avoiding unemployment, reaching equal opportunity, as well as promoting the social and vocational inclusion of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.

What Are the Features of Good Guidance?

How can clients, guidance practitioners2, service providers, policy makers and those responsible for its public administration recognise good guidance? Moreover, how can career guidance and counselling be improved? To assist practitioners and providers of guidance in the process of developing the quality and professionalism of their services, the National Guidance Forum in Education, Career and Employment (nfb) has developed a quality concept in cooperation with the Research Group Quality in Guidance at the Institute of Educational Science of the Heidelberg University (IBW) and numerous other experts. The project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The BeQu Concept: Three Tools – One Concept

The BeQu Concept comprises three essential elements of quality development:

  • Quality Standards for Career Guidance and Counselling
  • A Competence Profile for Guidance Practitioners
  • A Quality Development Framework (QDF) for Career Guidance and Counselling

The three elements of this comprehensive quality concept form part of a professionalization strategy to promote the social and political value attached to professional career guidance and counseling.

The BeQu Concept – A Guiding Framework for Career Guidance and Counselling

The BeQu Concept was developed with a broad involvement of numerous actors and stakeholders from the German guidance community and is now freely available for everyone interested. The more practitioners, service providers, administrators and responsible policy makers acknowledge and use these tools/instruments as a benchmark for professional career guidance and counselling, the more the BeQu Concept will emerge as a guiding framework for guidance practice and policy in Germany.

 

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For more information please contact:


German National Guidance Forum

(Nationales Forum Beratung in Bildung, Beruf und Beschäftigung e.V.)

 

Karen Schober &
Susanne Schmidtpott,


Address:
Kurfürstenstr. 131,
D-10785 Berlin, Germany

Phone:
+49 (0)30 25 79 3741
E-mail:
info@beratungsqualitaet.net