I think technology has been used in
guidance for a very long time.
It's more like we've integrated the technology,
but use it more as a medium for what we've done earlier.
Also, what I've learned from attending the course for the first time.
Seeing how it can be transformative for the practices.
If you think of the role of technology and how it changes the way we work.
We have to be willing to accept that it changes the way how we work in guidance
and we can use technology for delivering information.
I'm still in charge as a practitioner of the process.
Secondly, we can use it as a channel for communication, for example using telephone, it's a technology as well
or using the emails or chat, so that's
the communication one-to-one.
Then we can use also this technology for
collaborative career learning and using these platforms,
where groups can discuss
on the same issues at the same time
synchronously or asynchronously.
The biggest change which has emerged with the social media is that
while I have access to same information like the practitioners, that was already within the internet,
but social media gives us opportunities to
generate knowledge and be present in different ways.
This implies a new way of how we are using the technology,
so we use it with or without the help of
practitioners.
We call this co-careering, we can be co-constructing meaningful career related knowledge with community members.
This is something that we didn't have 20 years ago.
It's challenging us as practitioners that this carry development takes place.
As practitioners we are not necessarily controlling it,
but we can use the technology to work on behalf of these career processes that are shared
and we can market the career issues with the technology.
I want to tell to other career practitioners that ICT is here,
if you don't use it, then you actually won't be able to reach many of your clients
and especially younger people are so in ICT that sometimes they just don't get what you tell them
without explaining to them from the perspective of online, a game or a playful way.
