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Ø Implement the full-scale, national career development strategy in
addressing needs and concerns of the different stakeholders regarding human capital
development.
o Issues/concerns to be addressed are:
§ The need for professional trained and competent career practitioners and
advocates in delivering evidence-based career services to individuals, groups
and organizations.
§ The need for proper dissemination and utilization of career and labor
market information among the different labor force categories (e.g., students,
trainees, employed and unemployed).
§ The need to align and develop educational curriculum to be responsive to
the needs of industries (e.g., 21st century skills, career
development, and existing policies). There is also a need for industries to
guide the academe and government in facilitating their initiatives in
developing the Filipino workforce.
§ The need to intensify linkage among key government agencies in
spearheading the creation and implementation of career and workforce
development policies and programs in responding to the issues and challenges
that affect employability, and career readiness of Filipinos.
o The specific objectives of the said partnership are:
§ Utilize Kuder’s professional development portfolio in capacitating
career practitioners (licensed and non-licensed) and career advocates (e.g.,
parents, teachers) in delivering relevant and responsive career services to
their targeted individuals. SFI and Kuder to develop a competency-based
training curricula for increasing the number of competent career practitioners
in the Philippines.
·
Kuder may be used as a
standard curriculum for the training of career advocates, life mentors, human
resource practitioners, teachers, etc. on providing basic career development
services; and specialized training for licensed career practitioners. Hence,
addressing the issue of the lack of licensed counselors.
·
Kuder may also be used in
guiding parents, teachers and school counselors to have the necessary
information and skills in providing career guidance to their children and
students.
§ Use Kuder as a career planning tool for guiding students, trainees,
employed and unemployed in utilizing career and labor market information for
effective career decision making.
§ Develop a framework for contextualizing career development in the
curriculum for career planning and use SFI-Kuder partnership as a platform for
a collaborative effort between and among academic institutions, industries and
government agencies in developing and in standardizing relevant and responsive
career development interventions for the Philippines.
Proposed Levels of Participation with Partner Organizations and
Local Government Institutions
§ Career Development
Association of the Philippines (CDAP). CDAP
is a non-stock, non-profit organization dedicated to the growth, practice and
advancement of career development in business and industrial organizations,
educational institutions, government agencies and non-government organizations
in the Philippines. This organization caters to the professional advancement of
licensed career counselors and other career practitioners.
o CDAP is a strategic partner of SFI in developing the curriculum for the
training and certification of career practitioners and advocates.
·
Career Guidance Advocacy Program – Working Group (CGAP).
o The CGAP WG National Career Guidance Advocacy Plan (CGAP) in (1)
promoting the benefits of proper career guidance to students and workers; (2)
developing and providing responsive labor market information publications and
research; (3) providing capacity building on life skills to guidance
counsellors and career advocates; (4) strengthening the capacity of Public
Employment Service Offices (PESOs); (5) intensifying the promotion and
utilization of the PhilJobNet; and (6) delivering career guidance programs and
projects as scheduled.
o SFI collaborates with CGAP-WG in developing a national framework for the
capacity-building of career practitioners (licensed and non-licensed) on
delivering relevant and responsive career services to their clients (e.g.,
PESO).
o The partnership seeks to address the lack of Registered Guidance
Counselors (RGCs) who can provide the necessary career guidance programs and
services to students most especially in the public-school setting. SFI plans to
assist CGAP WG in professionalizing the career development practice in the
country by means of legislation or an alternative curriculum for the licensing
of career advocates.
§ Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE). DOLE is SFI’s partner in
implementing the Philippine Talent Map Initiative (PTMI) assessing the 21st
century skills of the workforce.
o DOLE is seen to be an important entity in the institutionalization of a national
career development framework for the Philippines through relevant career
interventions and policies for improving the Filipino workforce.
§ Department of Education
(DepEd), Technical Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and Commission on
Higher Education (CHED) and Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). DepEd, TESDA, PRC and CHED, being
the educational agencies for basic education, technical-vocational education
and higher education, respectively, offers a formidable role in building the
labor force/workforce even before the students graduate.
o The SFI-Kuder partnership can work on the national recognition of DepEd,
CHED, and TESDA of Kuder as a career planning system for students.
o The partnership can help DepEd, CHED, TESDA, PRC in responding to the
provisions of RA 11206 (Secondary School Career Guidance and Counseling Act),
RA 10533, Sec 9 (Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013) specifically the
articles about Career Guidance Advocacy Program and the RA 9258 (Guidance and
Counseling Act of 2004).
o PRC can assist in recognizing the Kuder Professional Development System
as a certified CPD curriculum for licensed career practitioners.
§ Philippine Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and Employment Confederation of the Philippines
(ECOP). PCCI and ECOP, being the leader
organizations of different industries and employers, they are perceived to be
the important actors in the partnership through the institutionalization of
career development practice among organizations. The Kuder system can be used
as a tool for evidence-based career pathing of the workforce among different
industries.
o Through this, industry partners and employers may have an easier way of
developing evidence-based human resource and organizational development
interventions. Customized career development programs may be developed per
industry.
o PCCI/ECOP and SFI envision to form a strategic partnership in developing
the first national career development strategy for organizations.
Kuder is an online career guidance solutions provider that has helped
more than 165 million people worldwide visualize what’s next in
life and make the plans to get there. Kuder’s customizable and
comprehensive tools and resources—including research-based assessments and
real-world, actionable guidance to users of all ages—reflect a company-wide
commitment to encourage lifelong learning, development, and
achievement. From pre-kindergarten to post-secondary or tertiary
education, from entering the workforce to mid-career transitions, Kuder helps
people of all ages dream big and plan accordingly.
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