Social Partnership in Education for Students' Career: Reality and Trends

Abstract

Choosing a career and going through the approaches necessary in the training of a young person as a specialist in the chosen field are complex processes that have a defining impact in their professional future. Career education, as an educational intervention to develop the skills and abilities necessary for young people to develop and manage their own careers, is an essential element of the process of university vocational training. At the same time, it is absolutely necessary to involve other social actors and to create a partnership between the social stakeholders in order to adjust the process of professional guidance of the students to the existing occupational context. The sociological study conducted by the Centre for Career Guidance and Counselling of the State University of Physical Education and Sport, Chisinau, demonstrates the respondents' awareness of the necessity to involve several elements in the professional guidance, counselling and career guidance of the students, such as: families, university and other educational agents, the information resources and the media, non-governmental organizations, potential employers and various economic agents.