Candidate Profile
Karen Schober
Location: Nurenberg, Germany
Board Position Sought:
- Board member + President/Vice-President
Special Interests
- Raising the profile and acknowledgement of the importance of high quality career guidance for the achievement of individual career goals and social inclusion as well as for economic welfare and social well being in our societies
- Raising IAEVG’s leadership in international career guidance issues
- Policy and systems development in career guidance nationally and internationally
- Cooperation and Coordination in Career Guidance
Areas of Work
- In the past 4 years on the IAEVG Executive Committee: Review and alteration of the IAEVG Statutes; contact person to ILO, ELGPN, WAPES
- Leadership and management the German National Guidance Form (nfb)
- Improving cooperation and coordination among multiple actors and stakeholders in Germany
- Improving national standards for quality and quality assurance in career guidance and counselling in Germany through an open process of coordination among all relevant actors and stakeholders
- Active involvement in the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network ELGPN for IAEVG working on quality indicators and evidence base
Publications or Key Achievements
1970 – 1995 Senior Researcher in the Federal Employment Institute of the FEA*)
1995 – 2005 Head of the Dep. for Vocational Guidance and Counseling in FEA
2005 – 2008 Coordinator of the German National Training Pact in the FEA
2002 – 2007 Member of EU-Commissions’ Expert Group for Lifelong Guidance
2004 – 2006 Preparation for the establishment of the German National Guidance Forum, founded in Sept. 2006;
2006 – ongoing President of the National Guidance Forum
2007 – ongoing IAEVG Vice-President
2007 – ongoing Representation of IAEVG in the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network ELGPN
Selected Publications:
Together with Dr. Bernhard Jenschke (Past President of IAEVG) and Judith Fruebing: “Career Guidance in the Life Course. Structures and Services in Germany”, (Ed.: Nationales Forum Beratung in Bildung, Beruf und Beschäftigung), Berlin 2011
K. Schober (ed.), Career Guidance in the Field of VET (Beratung im Umfeld beruflicher Bildung), Bielefeld 2000
K. Schober, Quality in Vocational Guidance and Counselling, in: FEA (ed.), RAT (Basic Handbook of individual Counselling) Vol.3, Nuremberg 2003
Nominated by:
German Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance AND Dr. Bryan Hiebert
