Programe Career counseling and the global labor market,Tirgu-Mureş,

Romania, 2005

CAREER COUNSELING AND THE GLOBAL LABOR MARKET

31 May – 2 June 2005

Honorary President

Mircea MICLEA

Minister of Education and Research

Romania

President

Liviu MARIAN

Rector of the “Petru Maior” University Tirgu-Mures

Romania

TIRGU-MURES

2005

PROGRAME

Sunday, May 29, 2005

1400 – 2000Registration of the participants (conference, trainings)

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 22

Monday, May 30, 2005

800 – 2200Registration of the participants

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 22

1000 – 1330Training 1

Teamwork and leadership in growing companies

Prof. Dr. rer.pol. Hans-Juergen Weissbach
Dr. Barbara Weissbach

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 4a

“Petru Maior” University, Room 4b

Training 2

Active engagement counseling strategies

Professor Dr. Norman Amundson

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 34

1330 – 1500Lunch break

Location: “Continental” Hotel

1530 – 2000Training 1

1. Teamwork and leadership in growing companies

Prof. Dr. rer.pol. Hans-Juergen Weissbach
Dr. Barbara Weissbach

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 4a

“Petru Maior” University, Room 4b

Training 2

2. Active engagement counseling strategies

Professor Dr. Norman Amundson

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 34

2000– 2200Welcome cocktail

Location: “Continental” Hotel

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

800 – 1100Registration of the participants

Location : “Petru Maior” University , Room 22

1100 – 1130OpeningCeremony

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Aula Magna

1130 – 1330 Plenary session

Location: “Petru Maior” University , Aula Magna

1330 – 1500Lunch break

Location: “Continental” Hotel

1500 – 1530Plenary session -NBCC Overview Session

Location: “Petru Maior” University , Aula Magna

1530 – 1800Workgroups

Section 1 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 40

Section 2 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 34

Section 3 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 100

1930– 2200Banquet

Romanian traditional dinner

Location: “Europa” Hotel

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

900 – 1100GCDF Panel Discussion

Location: “Petru Maior” University , Aula Magna

1100 – 1130Coffee break

1130 – 1330Workgroups

Section 1 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 40

Section 2 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 34

Section 3 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 100

1330 – 1500Lunch break

Location: “Continental” Hotel

1530 – 1900Workgroups

Section 1 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 40

Section 2 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 34

Section 3 Location: “Petru Maior” University , Room 100

2000 – 2200Gala dinner

Location: “Continental” Hotel

Thursday, June 2, 2005

Touristic activities

Friday, June 3, 2005

Touristic activities

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

President

Dr. Mihai Jigau
Head of Department for Educational and Vocational Guidance
in the Institute of Educational Sciences

Professor
Dr. Thomas M. Collins, NCC / Professor of Counseling
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Thomas W. Clawson, NCC / Executive Director and CEO
NBCC and Affiliates USA
Professor
Dr. Norman Amundson / Dept of Educational and Counseling
Psychology, and Special Education
Faculty of Education, University of
British Columbia, CANADA
Professor
Dr. Dale Furbish / ProgramLeaderAucklandUniversity of Technology , New Zealand
Professor
Dr. Hans Juergen Weissbach / Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main,
Geschäftsführender Direktor des Instituts für Entrepreneurship, GERMANY
Associate Professor
Dr. SzilagyiAndreea / International Counselor in Residence
National Board for Certified Counselors, USA
Associate Professor
Dr. Gabriela LEMENI / Babes – Bolyai University, Cluj – Napoca
Head of Department “EXPERT “ Career Center, ROMANIA
Associate Professor
Dr. Maria Georgescu / “Petru Maior” University, Tirgu-Mures
Head of the University College, ROMANIA

Organizing COMMITTEE

president
Prof.dr. eng. Liviu MARIAN
Rector of „Petru Maior” University

secretary

Georgeta BOARESCU

psychologist -career counselor

MEMBERS

Associate Prof. Dr. Tania IATCU
Associate Prof. Dr.Avram TRIPON
Associate Prof. Dr. Daniela ŞTEFĂNESCU
Associate Prof.Dr. Adrian PETELEAN
Assistant Prof. Liviu CIUCAN
Assistant Prof. Iustin SFÂRIAC
Sociologist Florin CIOTEA
LecturerAndrei MĂRGINEAN / LecturerLia CONŢIU
LecturerNicoleta MEDREA
Lecturer Andrea LIBEG
LecturerFlavia ARDELEAN eng. Radu BOARESCU
eng. Vlad GHERMAN
eng. Florian DOBRILĂ
ec. Reghina FĂRCAŞ

Ladies and gentlemen,

On behalf of the Senate of Petru Maior University from Targu Mures I wish you the warmest welcome to the beautiful realm of the county of Mures. We are happy to be together and share these moments full of intellectual significance and utmost interest for the contemporary scientific world.

The fact that we have succeeded in initiating and managing an international debate on career counselling and orientation shows our interest and the university’s ability to answer the challenges posed by the profound changes of contemporary civilization.

Since its foundation in the year 1960, securing for itself an institutional continuity and cultural permanence in spite of several obstacles and constraints, PetruMaiorUniversity has presented itself in its full maturity and fame as an authentic and generous “university for the community”. Throughout time, PetruMaiorUniversity has known a complex evolution, marked by the events of the historical periods it lived through, but in the meantime it has played an important role as a nucleus of spirituality and culture in the Mures area.

Beginning with 1990-91 PetruMaiorUniversity has known a strong institutional dynamics which can be seen in the setting up of new faculties and specializations, in the increase of the number of students and teaching staff. The openness to the social and economic medium, the ability to answer properly to exterior challenges and provocations, the collaborations and partnerships with many institutions and businesses place the university in the position of a real integrator in the formation and development of professional competences and higher qualifications.

We have more than 6,000 students and 135 members of the teaching staff within the three faculties (engineering, sciences and letters, economic and administrative sciences), the college, and post graduate studies, the MAs, day and long distance courses. The structure of the scientific fields and specializations, beginning with the academic year 2005-2006 and according to the Bologna treaty and the Berlin agreement, is changing into modules which will allow better performance of the formative-educational activities, offering the graduates larger perspectives and better chances on the labour market.

At present our university has as partners 37 universities all over the world. Since 2002 it has been a member of the International Association of the Universities (I. A. U.). We have been participating in many European programs: TEMPUS, SOCRATE, LEONARDO DA VINCI, CEEPUS, within which there are activities of funding the implementation of the system of transferable credits, students mobility and visiting teaching staff.

The process of globalization, in its multiple shapes, strongly influences the future development of the academic institutions. Suffice it to say that a graduate will face a unique and global labour market, in which multiculturalism and national identity will have gained new values, with paramount influences: international qualification, long-distance education, virtual libraries, teaching in international languages, educational offer adapted to the needs of the society, modern institutional management, compatible with the international performance standards.

The integration of Romania into the European Union means the necessity of profound economic, political, social, cultural and behavioural changes, and also new attitudes towards values and norms shared in common. This process demands from universities special efforts to become active agents, in order to facilitate the compatibility with the formative standards which already exist in other countries.

Thus the International Conference on Career Counseling under the conditions of globalization perfectly places itself within this context.

The problematic under discussion in this conference on career choosing within globalization answers, in our opinion, to an urgent need generated by the complex and rapid changes made by the different situations observed at the level of professions and qualifications.

Counselling as a communication act is an offer opened to those who, under certain circumstances of life, feel the need to be advised by a qualified person with professional experience. It is a process which involves cognitive aspects, that is, providing information, acquiring techniques for job hunting. The affective aspect of counselling is important as well, because it contributes to improving the self-esteem and clarifying a positive attitude towards someone’s work and profession. The role of career counselling and guidance is to offer information, moral and emotional support to those undecided about their educational and professional future, guiding them carefully to identifying solutions and alternatives.

Career counselling, integral part of career management as a process of designing and implementing roles, strategies and plans, allows the organization to satisfy its necessities for human resources, and the individuals to achieve the scope of their career. In the last decades new models in career counselling (socio-cognitive, development of vocational personality, processing career-connected information) have been created and implemented.

On the impulse of these new social and individual needs, stimulated by real progress in the methodology and practice of career counselling, even since the year 1998, Petru Maior University has implemented the project of a Centre for Information and Professional Counselling, the initiator and organizer of this scientific event. Without going into details, I mention that the activity of this important academic structure is oriented to providing information about jobs, occupational alternatives, interesting offers concerning education and professional development, to shaping interests and motivation, activities of individual and group counselling.

We are sure that the valuable theoretical and methodological gains, as well as your experience concerning career counselling constitute a remarkable premise which contributes to the development of preoccupations in this important field of knowledge and action.

Thank you.

Prof.univ.dr.eng. Liviu MARIAN

RECTOR

In the participation fee are included:

For the conference participants who paid 40 Є, 50 Є

conference portfolio

coffee

cocktail (30th May)

banquet(31st May)

For the conference participants who paid 15 Є

coffee

For the training 1 participants

training portfolio

participation diploma

coffee

For the training 2 participants

training portfolio

participation diploma

coffee

Additionally you can pay for:

cocktail (30th May)400.000 lei

banquet(31st May) 400.000 lei

lunch (30thMay,31stMay,1stJune) eachday 300.000 lei

gala dinner(1st May) 400.000 lei

Accommodation fees are paid at:

“Continental” Hotel

“Tineretului” Hotel

The touristic activities (2nd – 3rd June) are presented in the additional leaflets

Registration

1000 – 1330Training 1

Teamwork and leadership in growing companies

Prof. Dr. rer.pol. Hans-Juergen Weissbach
Dr. Barbara Weissbach

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 4a

“Petru Maior” University, Room 4b

Training 2

Active engagement counseling strategies

Professor Dr. Norman Amundson

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 100

1530 – 2000Training 1

Teamwork and leadership in growing companies

Prof. Dr. rer.pol. Hans-Juergen Weissbach
Dr. Barbara Weissbach

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 4a

“Petru Maior” University, Room 4b

Training 2

Active engagement counseling strategies

Professor Dr. Norman Amundson

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 100

1100 – 1130Opening Ceremony

Location: Aula Magna, “Petru Maior” University

1130 – 1330Plenary session

Location: Aula Magna, “Petru Maior” University

The Status of Counseling Profession in Romania

Dr. SZILAGYI Andreea International Counsellor in Residence National Board for Certified Counselors, USA; Associate Professor at PolytechnicUniversity of Bucharest,Romania

Adjusting Career Counseling Methods to Fit with a Changing Labor Market

Dr. Norman AMUNDSON professor in Counselling Psychology / Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Making use of profiling tools in job coaching processes - Some Experiences from Germany

Dr. Hans-Juergen Weissbach

Professor at the Department of Economy and Law at Fachhochschule Frankfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Career Counsellingin a Modern Global Context:

New Realities and Challenges

Dr. Dale S. FURBISH Ed.D, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the Graduate Diploma in Career Development at the AucklandUniversity of Technology, New Zealand

1500 – 15 30Plenary session – Overview NBCC International

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Aula Magna

Section 1

The Need For Certification in a Global Labor Market – The GCDF Project

1530 – 1800Workgroups

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 40

Co-chairs:Weissbach Hans-Juergen

University of Applied Sciences, Germany

JIGĂU Mihai

Institute of Educational Sciences, Romania

SZILAGYI Andreea

International Counsellor in Residence National

Board for Certified Counselors, USA;

Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

BOARESCU Georgeta

“Petru Maior” University, Tirgu-Mures, Romania

The need for supervision in the counseling programs
SZILAGYI Andreea / PolytechnicUniversity of Bucharest. Presently, NBCC International Counsellor-in-Residence, Romania
PAREDES Daniel M. / MS, NCC International Affairs Coordinator
NBCC & Affiliates, Inc. Greensboro, NC, USA
University Centres in Career Counseling – a factor of decision in choossing a career
BORA Carmen / University of Oradea, Romania
TRIP Simona / University of Oradea, Romania
RADU Alina / University of Oradea, Romania
THE NEED FOR QUALITATIVE CAREER COUNSELLING SERVICES IN THE ROMANIAN LABOUR MARKET
DANEŞ Luminiţa / National Agency for Employment , Romania
Career development in Bulgaria: univercitiesand the business together on the road to united Europe
DIMITROVA Raina / USAID Bulgaria
RAKOVSKA Gergana / USAID Labor Market Project Bulgaria
PETROV Svetozar / Operational Manager - Job Tiger Bulgaria
SITUATION OF CAREER COUNSELING EDUCATION IN TURKEY
KORKUT Fidan / HacettepeUniversity, Ankara, Turkey
DESIGNIN AND IMPLEMENTING A PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM
LUKACS Edit / “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania

Section 2

Career counseling & the global labor market

1530 – 1800Workgroups

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 34

Co-chairs: AMUNDSON Norman

University of British Columbia, Canada

JINGA Ioan

University of Bucharest, Romania

IAŢCU Tatiana

“Petru Maior” University, Tîrgu-Mureş, Romania

PUBLIC PENSION – PERCEPTION, RESTRICTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES REGARDING CAREER
AGERGHELOAEI
Ştefana / The National House of Pensions and Other Rights of Social Welfare, Bucharest, Romania
A DYNAMIC MODEL TO ESTIMATE POTENTIAL GDP
ALBU Lucian-Liviu / Institute for Economic Forecasting Bucharest, Romania
MANAGER’S COUNSELLING IN LOCAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
BĂLAN George / S.C. Amical Suport S.R.L. Câmpulung, Romania
BUCUR Viorel / University of Piteşti, Romania
CAREER MANAGEMENT. THE CAREER OF THE CIVIL SERVANT IN LOCAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
BUCUR Viorel / University of Piteşti, Romania
BĂLAN George / S.C. Amical Suport S.R.L. Câmpulung Romania
The analyses of counseling need and career orientation
BUDA Lucia / “1 Decembrie 1918” Univ., Alba IuliaRomania
BUDA Călin / “1 Decembrie 1918” Univ., Alba IuliaRomania
EDUCATIONAL COUNSELING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING CAREER
CARCEA Maria Ileana / Technical University of Iasi, Romania
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MANAGERIAL CAREERS IN THE ROMANIAN ORGANIZATIONS
CIUCUREL M.Mihaela / University of Pitesti, Romania
NEAGOE I. Loredana / University of Pitesti, Romania
The ICT labor market imbalances
CREŢU Raluca Florentina / EconomicsStudiesAcademy, Bucharest, Romania

Section 3

PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

1530 – 1800Workgroups

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 100

Co-chairs: FURBISH Dale

AucklandUniversity of Technology, New Zealand

TOMSA Gheorghe

University of Bucharest, Romania

GEORGESCU Maria

“Petru Maior” University, Tirgu-Mures, Romania

A WAY OF GROUP COUNSELING FOR GRADUATING HIGHSCHOOL CLASSES - THE USE OF THE TASK SHEETS IN EXPLORING THE PERSONALITY -
BĂIAŞU Nadia / “Energetic” High School RmVâlcea,Romania
SAMSON Denise / “Antim Ivireanul” High School Râmnicu-Vâlcea,Romania
Competencies Review. The Review/Survey Counsellor
CĂDARIU Loredana / "Eftimie Murgu" University, Reşiţa, Romania
Presentation of certain instruments used by the Review / Survey Counsellor
CĂDARIU Loredana / "Eftimie Murgu" University, Reşiţa, Romania
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAREER IN ORGANIZATIONS: THE RELATION BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND THE MANAGERS’ NEEDS OF TRAINING
CIUCUREL M.Mihaela / University of Pitesti, Romania
CUCU-CIUHAN Geanina / University of Pitesti, Romania
Success in career in Romanian organizational environments: competences involved and their training (partial results)
CUCU-CIUHANGeanina, / University of Pitesti, Romania
CIUCUREL Manuela / University of Pitesti, Romania
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CAREER – CLASSICAL AND MODERN CAREER THEORIES
CUCU-CIUHANGeanina, / University of Pitesti, Romania
NEAGOE IleanaLoredana, / University of Pitesti, Romania
Organization and individual competencies as a basis for development
DOVAL Elena / Faculty of Management Brasov, “Spiru Haret” University Bucharest, Romania

900- 1100GCDF Panel Discussion

Location:PetruMaiorUniversity, Room: Aula Magna

The aim of the panel discussion is togive an overviewofthe present situation in career counseling and the state of the introductionprocess ofthe GCDFinthecountries participating in the conference.

Questions like the following will be discussed:

- Which arethe most important adjustments and adaptationsof the GCDF curriculum to national needs and particular cultural conditions?

-Which arethe future development aims?

- Who are the mostinterestedtarget groups of the GCDF?

The following speakers will give a short report for their countries:

Andreea Szilagyi - for the U.S. side

Gergana Rakovska – Bulgaria

Zhu Lun – China

Yang Kai – China

Barbara Weissbach- Germany

Dale Furbish – New Zealand

Mihai Jigau – Romania

Fidan Korkut - Turkey

The discussion will be open for the public after two or three initial rounds of questions. It will bemoderated by Dr. Hans-J. Weissbach - Germany.

Section 1

The Need For Certification in a Global Labor Market – The GCDF Project

1130 – 1330Workgroups

Location: “Petru Maior” University, Room 40

Co-chairs:Weissbach Hans-Juergen

University of Applied Sciences, Germany

JIGĂU Mihai

Institute of Educational Sciences, Romania

SZILAGYI Andreea

International Counsellor in Residence National

Board for Certified Counselors, USA;

Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

BOARESCU Georgeta

“Petru Maior” University, Tirgu-Mures, Romania

GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN COUNSELING
NICOLAE Alina / “Eftimie Murgu" University of Reşiţa, Romania
Labor Force Mobility – Factor of Economic Growth
NICOLAE Mariana / Institute of Economic Forecasting, Bucharest, Romania
The Education and the Life Economy
PELINESCU Elena / RomanianAcademy, Bucharest, Romania
Globalization and inequity. The NECESSITY OF the migration management from A 3- DIMENSION perspective,an economical, social and management ONE
NIŢĂ Mircea Aurel / NationalSchool for Political and Public Administration Studies, NSPSA, Bucharest, Romania;
BOCA Nichifor / National Agency for Rural Consultancy in Bucharest, Romania
Migration: dynamic equilibrium between progress and regression
NIŢĂ Mircea Aurel / NationalSchool for Political and Public Administration Studies, NSPSA, Bucharest, Romania;
COMMUNICATION AND NEGOTIATION – A NEW PERSPECTIVEOR A HISTORICAL ONE ?
NIŢĂ Mircea Aurel / NationalSchool for Political and Public Administration Studies, NSPSA, Bucharest, Romania;