Career ready? Preparing young people for working life
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Career ready? Preparing young people for working life
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Career readiness in the pandemic
PRESENTATIONS
Career readiness in the pandemic Hong Kong January 21
New OECD project for 2021: Career readiness in the pandemic December 2020
VIDEOS
Why career guidance has never been so important?
The OECD gratefully acknowledges the support of our partners in this work: the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the Jacobs Foundation (Switzerland) and the National Center on Education and the Economy (United States).
Wage premiums at age 26 linked to teenage participation in school-managed career talks undertaken at age 14-16 with premiums increasing with the number of career talks undertaken and student perceptions of their utility.
Wage premiums at age 19-24 linked to teenage participation in school-managed episodes of employer engagement (short work placements, career talks, mentoring, enterprise activities).
Wage premiums at age 26 linked to teenage social networks and participation in school-managed career talks wherein premiums are greatest for (typically more disadvantaged) young people who do not anybody who will help them get a job when they leave school.
NEET (Not in Education Employment and Training) outcomes at age 16-19 linked to career uncertainty and misalignment at age 16.
Drawing on PISA data to illustrate how teenage career aspirations are distorted by gender, socio-economic background and migrant status
Policy Papers
(December 2019) A short leaflet jointly published by Cedefop, the European Commission, European Training Foundation, International Labor Organisation, OECD and UNESCO explaining the unprecedented importance of career guidance and what makes for effective practice.
Career guidance policy and practice in the pandemic
(December 2020) The results of an international survey of career guidance policy officials and practitioners exploring the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Examples of Practice