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    Career Guidance Stakeholders Platform 2021

    Accelerating Human Capital Development through Career Guidance under the QNV2030 - Virtual Edition

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    Event on Nov 23th 2021

    Overview

    For more than a decade Qatar’s leadership has invested great efforts in transforming the country into an advanced society capable of achieving sustainable development by 2030. Research suggests that the four pillars of the Qatar National Vision 2030, addressing economic, social, human, and environmental development goals, are interrelated through the value that career guidance and development injects at both strategic and tactical levels. This impact enables stakeholders to respond to present and future challenges. Career guidance is also known by other terms such as ‘career development’, ‘workforce development’, ‘professional orientation’, vocational guidance and counseling’, ‘lifelong guidance’, or ‘livelihood planning’ in different countries. Career guidance is delivered face-to-face, at distance or in a blended mode. Career Guidance includes a wide range of activities to support citizens in making educational and employment decisions, and to manage their careers. This includes one-to-one consultation, group communications, experiential learning, and timely access to information on working life training and employment opportunities.

    Career guidance is not an add-on in advanced countries. It is a continuous process which enables the smooth transition of young people into further education and the world of work, and for adults needing to upskill or to move within the labor market. Career guidance is a 21st-century phenomenon enabling societies to realize the full potential of citizens in adapting to the rapidly changing world of work.

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    Theme

    Titled Accelerating Human Capital Development through Career Guidance under the QNV2030, and in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, International Labor Organization (ILO) Project Office for the State of Qatar, and Qatar Foundation (QF)’s Higher Education Division, the 2022 Platform will address strategic and tactical issues through seven thematic areas:
    • National career guidance policies and strategies
    • Multi-channeled career guidance services
    • Middle-high school transition of people with disabilities
    • K-12 career guidance in schools
    • Employability of higher education students
    • Transition and upskilling of adult workforce
    • Harnessing Labour Market Intelligence
    Representatives of key ministries and stakeholder institutions operating in public, private, and mixed sectors will be invited to reflect on these themes as active participants. The Platform will benefit from a fusion of national and international experts’ engagement, consideration of the latest international research and evidence-based solutions, and mutual sharing of needs, interests, and actions.

    METHOD OF ENGAGING
    THE 2021 PLATFORM PARTICIPANTS

    As illustrated in the above section, the 2016 platform’s recommendations and post-platform implementation actions strongly indicated that while some achievements have been made, more effort needs to be invested through increasing synergies in order to move forward. As such, and in as much as the platform focuses on the education, training, labor market, information and communication technology components of career guidance, this year’s platform is explicitly designed for active engagement of key Qatari institutions involved in such areas of specialization. Also, other stakeholders like independent career guidance institutions and researchers, students, parents of school students, regional/international career development oriented organizations like Namaa, Injaz-Qatar, and Silatec will be active platform participants. Examples of such stakeholder institutions include Ministry Education and Higher Education, Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Family Affairs, Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, Ministry of Communications and Transport, Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth, Qatar University, Qatar Foundation’s Education City, Qatar Community College, College of the North Atlantic in Qatar, Private sector’s Education and Training Institutions, National Talent Development Committees in institutions like Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar Petroleum and its subsidiaries, Ooredoo, Sidra, Heritage and Legacy and Qatar Airways. Therefore, representatives of those stakeholder institutions operating in public, private and mixed-sectors of the Qatari economy will be invited as active participants. Based on their relevant experience and expertise, all participants will be distributed into three types of breakout sessions including:

    Four round table discussion groups will be formed and each one of them will be composed of high level policy and decision-making participants representing various stakeholder institutions. The joint objective of those groups is to develop concrete actions needed to operationally move towards development of career guidance in Qatar along four strategic dimensions. Expressed in terms of topical discussion areas, these dimensions relate to addressing Qatar’ situational givens in order to provide foundational work needed to develop: (1) national level career guidance framework, standards and policies (2) stakeholder’s roles in, and responsibilities for implementing Qatar’s career guidance strategy for 2017-2022, (3) technology driven career guidance services and resources, and (4) UNESCO’s career guidance standards related to TVET.

    To that end, each round table discussion group will concentrate on one of the above mentioned four strategic topical areas. In addition, members of each of those groups will be engaged in a reflective process to address strategic, national level, issues pertinent to their group’s topic of discussion. This means that each group will operate separately and will be required to develop concrete sets of actions needed to operationally move towards developing career guidance in Qatar along a specific dimension. As such, it is expected that the round table discussion groups will produce foundational work needed to develop national level, and Qatar specific, career guidance framework, education and labor market information system, active involvement of various stakeholders in Qatar’s 5-year career guidance strategy, technology driven career guidance services and resources, and benchmark educational standards and quality criteria developed by UNESCO in as far as career guidance is concerned.

    Four round table discussion groups will be formed and each one of them will be composed of high level policy and decision-making participants representing various stakeholder institutions. The joint objective of those groups is to develop concrete actions needed to operationally move towards development of career guidance in Qatar along four strategic dimensions. Expressed in terms of topical discussion areas, these dimensions relate to addressing Qatar’ situational givens in order to provide foundational work needed to develop: (1) national level career guidance framework, standards and policies (2) stakeholder’s roles in, and responsibilities for implementing Qatar’s career guidance strategy for 2017-2022, (3) technology driven career guidance services and resources, and (4) UNESCO’s career guidance standards related to TVET.

    To that end, each round table discussion group will concentrate on one of the above mentioned four strategic topical areas. In addition, members of each of those groups will be engaged in a reflective process to address strategic, national level, issues pertinent to their group’s topic of discussion. This means that each group will operate separately and will be required to develop concrete sets of actions needed to operationally move towards developing career guidance in Qatar along a specific dimension. As such, it is expected that the round table discussion groups will produce foundational work needed to develop national level, and Qatar specific, career guidance framework, education and labor market information system, active involvement of various stakeholders in Qatar’s 5-year career guidance strategy, technology driven career guidance services and resources, and benchmark educational standards and quality criteria developed by UNESCO in as far as career guidance is concerned.

    Four round table discussion groups will be formed and each one of them will be composed of high level policy and decision-making participants representing various stakeholder institutions. The joint objective of those groups is to develop concrete actions needed to operationally move towards development of career guidance in Qatar along four strategic dimensions. Expressed in terms of topical discussion areas, these dimensions relate to addressing Qatar’ situational givens in order to provide foundational work needed to develop: (1) national level career guidance framework, standards and policies (2) stakeholder’s roles in, and responsibilities for implementing Qatar’s career guidance strategy for 2017-2022, (3) technology driven career guidance services and resources, and (4) UNESCO’s career guidance standards related to TVET.

    To that end, each round table discussion group will concentrate on one of the above mentioned four strategic topical areas. In addition, members of each of those groups will be engaged in a reflective process to address strategic, national level, issues pertinent to their group’s topic of discussion. This means that each group will operate separately and will be required to develop concrete sets of actions needed to operationally move towards developing career guidance in Qatar along a specific dimension. As such, it is expected that the round table discussion groups will produce foundational work needed to develop national level, and Qatar specific, career guidance framework, education and labor market information system, active involvement of various stakeholders in Qatar’s 5-year career guidance strategy, technology driven career guidance services and resources, and benchmark educational standards and quality criteria developed by UNESCO in as far as career guidance is concerned.

    OUR SPEAKERS

    Mr. Albert Alkamino

    Administrative Development, Web Folk LTD

    Rose Claire

    President of the company Vibes

    Andrea

    SocialSoul ™

    JOHN SMITH

    Co-Founder & CEO The Axis Group

    The Career Guidance Stakeholders Platform - Virtual Edition, will be a one-day event hosted on January 18th 2022

    For more information about Career Guidance Stakeholders Platform 2021, please call us on: 44546815. Or e-mail us at: qcdc@qf.org.qa.

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