Professional Competencies for Brasilian Guidance Practicioners

Abstract

Changes and new demands in the world of work have lead an important debate with implications in the role of Vocational Guidance. This debate has generated mayor attention on the concept of vocatio‐ nal counselor competency based training. This attention increased on the bases of the study initiated by the IAEVG, and its international approach of the competence standards, that proposed a model for core and specialized competencies. Based on that model, an adaptation of the professional competencies of the Brazilian vocational counselor is presented here. With this aim, an evaluation questionnaire developed by Repetto et als. (2004, 2008) was used; from the results of this questionnaire, training and work of guidance practitioners and implications for improving the quality of their service is discussed.