Lietuvos ekonomikos restruktūrizacija bei integracija į Europos ekonomines struktūras lemia karjeros projektavimo paslaugų poreikio didėjimą. Viena iš Europos Komisijos memorandume išdėstytų minčių yra profesinio konsultavimo paslaugų plėtotė, kurios pagrindinis uždavinys - užtikrinti, kad kiekvienas individas galėtų lengvai gauti geros kokybės informaciją bei patarimus susijusius su mokymosi visą gyvenimą galimybėmis visoje Europoje. Lietuvos Respublikos Švietimo ir mokslo bei Socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministerijų parengtoje profesinio orientavimo strategijoje (2003) pabrėžiama, kad kvalifikuoti, turintys tinkamą išsilavinimą bei kompetenciją karjeros projektavimo specialistai yra yra vienas svarbiausių karjeros projektavimo kokybės užtikrinimo garantų. [...]

The article presents counselling as an activity that supports socialisation processes. Lifelong career counselling helps young people prepare for vocational and life-related roles and aims to assist an individual in developing competencies one needs to function effectively on the labour market. One of such competencies is professional mobility, which is a typical marker of contemporary biographies called boundaryless career

The aim of the article is to make public the results of theoretical and empirical research, the model “System of promotion and support for the development of specialist’s competitiveness in an enterprise (organisation)” and its expertise results. The article surveys the basis of the concept of staff ’s competitiveness, a special place given to the description of the designed model, the aim of which is to provide the support and promotion of the staff ’s competitiveness in an enterprise, as well as the analysis and assessment of results obtained during the expertise of the model. The designed model as such is a system of cooperation that contains four basic components of the interaction.

The paper presents the findings of the competence needs analysis performed in order to determine the employers’ needs for their staff competencies in design, technology and economics in the sectors of forestry and wood, metal and machinery, agriculture and food industry in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. This study was performed as a part of the implementation of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project “Implementing Interdisciplinarity in Career Counselling”. A survey of company representatives was carried out in order to identify the work processes and the competencies in product design, production technologies and economics that are the most relevant to career guidance.