Abstract
The article presents counselling as an activity that supports socialisation processes. Lifelong career counselling helps young people prepare for vocational and life-related roles and aims to assist an individual in developing competencies one needs to function effectively on the labor market. One of such competencies is professional mobility, which is a typical marker of contemporary biographies called boundaryless career.
Highlights
The labour market is by no means homogeneous
The research conducted by the CBOS (Centre for Public Opinion Surveys) in 2013 showed that within the last five years almost 1/3 of employed adult Poles (31%) had at least once changed jobs
Mental mobility entails resettling securely when one has already returned from abroad. All this means that boundaryless career relies on the so-called mobility capital, which denotes “an individual’s total experience that fosters creative and effective coping in new settings and new situations” (Bańka, 2006)
Summary
The labour market is by no means homogeneous. As the segmentation conception holds, there are several parallel markets. The primary and the secondary segments can be differentiated The former means interesting jobs and rewarding pays. Jobs available on this market can be taken both by degree-holders (e.g. managerial positions in many companies) as well as by people with elementary or technical education (e.g. construction workers). The latter means poorly paid jobs, difficult working conditions, so-called “junk contracts” or enforced part-time employment (Guichard & Huteau, 2005). New developments in technology, flexibility of working hours, and changes in the labour-related legislation (Beck, 2004) it does not suffice to equip graduates with vocational competencies. It is urgent to prepare them for facing up to the realities of vocational chaos, which compel them to change jobs, acquire and improve professional skills and develop the ability to transfer from one sphere to another
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