Interregional conference Career guidance work with youth Present and future will be held in Irkutsk

On October 18, Irkutsk will host an interregional conference Career guidance with youth. Present and future, bringing together over 150 participants from 9 regions of Siberia and Sverdlovsk Oblast.

The interregional conference “Career Guidance Work with Youth. Present and Future” will be held in Irkutsk on October 18. More than 150 representatives of universities, vocational colleges, and municipal and regional authorities from 9 regions of the Siberian Federal District (Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Zabaykalsky, and Altai territories, as well as the republics of Buryatia, Tuva, Khakassia, and Altai) and Sverdlovsk Oblast will take part in the conference.
The conference is organized by the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region with the support of the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District.
A career guidance event of this format and scale is being held in the Irkutsk Region for the first time. Its goal is to improve career guidance work with young people, promote successful career guidance experience, and develop the youth’s human resources potential.
It is planned that during the conference its participants will discuss models for building career guidance work in vocational education institutions; the possibilities of using IT technologies in organizing career guidance; as well as the competitiveness of young people in the modern labor market and preserving continuity in career guidance within the “school – university/vocational college – employer” system.
As part of the conference, master classes will be held by Professor N.S. Pryazhnikov of the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University, specialists from the “Humanitarian Technologies” Testing Center (Moscow), and the “Center for the Development of Professional Careers” (Novosibirsk).