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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1410628

Career Services at HEI's: What are they offering?

Provisionally accepted
Veronika Khurumova Veronika Khurumova 1,2Joana Carneiro Pinto Joana Carneiro Pinto 1,2*
  • 1 Catholic Research Center for Psychological, Family and Social Wellbeing, Faculty of Humanities, Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2 Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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    Higher education career centers should tailor their services towards empowering students to make them employable after graduation to meet the demands of the 21st century world of work. This paper aims to reflect on career counseling services provided by Higher Education Institutions. We start by presenting a brief history of their development around the world, with particular emphasis on Portugal. Next, a study about the current situation of these services in the country is presented, starting with an analysis of their organization, the type of actions/activities/services provided, as well as their accessibility. Results indicate that the Career Services in some Portuguese Higher Education Institutions appear not to be fully developed, and where they exist, they often focus mostly (and sometimes solely) upon job placement or internship provision. More investment is needed to meet the new employability needs and demands of both students (and their families) and the labor market.

    Keywords: career services, Higher education institutions, employability, Type of service, Accessibility and usability

    Received: 04 Apr 2024; Accepted: 20 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Khurumova and Carneiro Pinto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Joana Carneiro Pinto, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, 1649-023, Lisbon, Portugal

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