Competency Framework and Assessment tools for Career Professionals

The Finnish Institute for Educational Research of the University of Jyväskylä has prepared a proposal for a National Competency Framework for Career Professionals and a set of Assessment Forms that are based on and complement the framework.

To support the use of the competency framework, in addition to the paper versions, the following three online tools/resources have been published:

Online tools/resourses

Interactive figure of the competency framework

The competency framework can be easily explored through an interactive figure, where each competency area and its corresponding description can be examined simply by clicking on the associated area

The online version of the competency framework

The competency descriptions can also be conveniently browsed online.

Online tool for competency assessment as well as competency development planning

This online tool enables guidance professionals, teams, multidisciplinary networks, and organisations to assess their guidance competence against the Competency Framework for Career Professionals (Vuorinen, Kasurinen, Kettunen et al., 2023, 2024) and to set targeted competency goals. The information provided in the evaluation form will not be stored.

The tool is founded on Assessment forms 1 and 2 (the Competency Assessment Table and Competency Map), which are based on and complement the competency descriptions for guidance professionals. Publication with assessment forms can be found here.

Publications

Kettunen, J. Vuorinen, R., Kasurinen, H., Kukkaneva, E. & Ruusuvirta-Uuksulainen, O. (2024). National Competency Framework for Career Professionals: Assessment Forms. Finnish Institute for Educational Research Reports and Working Papers.9. University of Jyväskylä, Finnish Institute for Educational Research. URN: URN:ISBN:978-951-39-9928-5

Vuorinen, R., Kasurinen, H., Kettunen, J., Kukkaneva, E., Ruusuvirta-Uuksulainen, O. (2024). A proposal for a National Competency Framework for Career Professionals. Finnish Institute for Educational Research Reports and Working Papers 6. University of Jyväskylä, Finnish Institute for Educational Research. URN: URN:ISBN:978-951-39-9817-2