Mission statement

The International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance provides global leadership in and advocates for guidance by promoting ethical, socially just, and best practices throughout the world so that career, educational and vocational guidance and counselling is available to all citizens from competent and qualified practitioners through
services offered face to face or through digital communication technologies.

Goals

1. Promote ethical, socially just and best practice career, educational and vocational guidance by:

2. Advocate for career, educational and vocational guidance and counselling by:

3. Communicate with members and stakeholders by:

What is career, educational and vocational guidance and counselling?

Educational and vocational guidance and career counselling services assists people with learning and work decisions across the lifespan as well as conceptualising and understanding their work lives and helps them to strengthen their personal agency by developing skills, knowledge, attitudes and values to manage their careers. Through the world, career, educational and vocational guidance is known by many terms including career development, career education, career counselling, career psychology, vocational psychology, and career coaching. Career, educational and vocational guidance is conducted in a range of settings including schools, universities, technical colleges, public employment services, business and industry, and private through services offered face to face or through digital communication technologies.

Principles related to the provision of career, educational and vocational
guidance services

1. Career, educational and vocational guidance, including career development, is a lifelong process. It is imperative that accessible and inclusive career, educational and vocational guidance services be provided throughout the life span, life-long and life-wide.
   
   
2. Access to career, educational and vocational guidance services from a competent and appropriately trained practitioner is a right of all people, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, beliefs, disability, or sexual orientation, irrespective of their employment status, occupation level, geographic remoteness, the mode of compensation they receive, or whether they participate within or outside the formal labour market.
   
   
3. Career, educational and vocational guidance services can be offered face to face or through digital communications technologies through a variety of agencies, including (but not restricted to) schools, colleges and universities, community agencies, government departments, public employment services, business organizations, trade unions, and private enterprises.
   
   
4. Those who need career, educational and vocational guidance should receive it from competent and appropriately trained practitioners. In addition to preservice professional training, in-service training and continuing professional development are essential for professionals that seek to provide competent and up-to-date guidance services face to face or through digital communication technologies.
   
   

5. Career, educational and vocational guidance practitioners’ responsibilities to clients may not always be discharged fully by direct service to the individual.  Their responsibilities may involve referral to, or advocacy with appropriate agencies (e.g., mental health providers) in order to meet clients’ needs and enhance the outcomes for them.