| 
Greek pages
|  | Vocational Orientation The Vocational Orientation is an institution with an educational (pedagogical) nature implemented by O.A.E.D., that refers to the employable manpower. The Directorate of V.O. is the Service of the Organization which is consisted by four Departments and is responsible for carrying out this task. Apart from the Directorate of Vocational Orientation, there are the Local Services of the Organization , that deliver Vocational Orientation services. The role of the Directorate of V.O. is to define the strategies of implementation and to coordinate the local V.O. Services. In addition to this, it provides the V.O. Services with the necessary technical means for the delivery of V.O. and secures the quality of the services offered. As long as the local V.O. Services are concerned, they do not expand their activities to all Regions of the country for the time being. Perceptibly, there are three kinds of Services, where someone can get help relatively with the V.O.: - V.O. and Information Services are the most advanced V.O. Units. Such Services exist in Athens, Thessaloniki and Hraklio,
- The V.O. Offices which correspond in regional level. The personnel of these services is specialised and is consisted by psychologists, V.O. Councellors and V.O. Supervisors,
- The Employment Services where V.O. is offered in local level, as well as in the new Employment Promotion Centres.(delivering Vocational and Training Orientation plus job-seeking techniques.)
The V.O. Services of O.A.E.D. aim at helping people to make the proper professional choices in these ways: - The V.O.in individual level which mainly refers to young people between 14 - 18 years old and stimulates them to visit with their own initiation the Services. There, they can meet specialized V.O. councelors, who can help them to know themselves, in this way discovering their own abilities and inclination and simultaneously to get used to the world of work. In this way, young people can maturely and with their own responsibility choose a profession. This service is also offered to the adults who are unemployed and they want to be re-orientated (that means to choose a new profession),
- The professional and educational information is an important facilitation for young people who don't have the appropriate knowledge or experience of this subject. This is the reason why public information about the professions and educational training and employment opportunities, is a very important activity of the V.O. A lot of young people either alone or in organized groups (e.g.school classes) visit the V.O. Services of O.A.E.D. especially for this reason,
- The active V.O.,is addressed at: young people and especially to those who leave school after having completed 9 years of obligatory education or after having served in the army is also addressed to young people and adults without any Vocational Training, to young people who dropped out from school but would like to aquire vocational skills, to Long-term unemployed, to young and adults who need further training or updating of their vocational qualifications. It is also addressed to young people and adults, ex-drug addicts, handicapped people ex-prisoners or persons of greek origin who are repatriating. The active V.O. is an innovative programme, which refers once a year, to young people 15-18 years old. It aims at giving them brief information about groups of professions, to help them to discover their potential and to choose their profession, knowing which are the advantages and the disadvantages of their choice.
|