The document summarizes career education and guidance in Armenia. It outlines the career development system, which involves several ministries and the Career Guidance and Capacity Development Centre. Career guidance is integrated into the formal education system from elementary through high school. In middle and high school, career guidance clubs are mandatory and focus on helping students identify interests and skills, learn about career options and education requirements, and develop career management abilities to make informed choices about their professional paths. The methodology is based on assessing personal qualities, providing labor market information, and building skills like researching individual career paths.

1. Career Education and Guidance in
Formal Education
ARMENIA
Haykuhi Gevorgyan, PhD
Head of Career Guidance and Capacity Development
Centre (CGCD)
Founder of CareerLab, Armenia
Career Guidance and
Capacity Development Centre
Armenia

2. Policy
development
Provision of
methodology and
training of the
specialists
Service
provision
CAREER DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM IN ARMENIA
Ministry of Labor
and Social Affairs
Ministry of
Education, Science,
Culture and Sport
Social Partners
Social Services
Higher Education
TVET institutions
General Education
Career Guidance and
Capacity Development
Centre
Elementary School,
1-4 grade
Middle School,
5-9 grade
High School,
10-12 grade

3. Elementary
school
Middle
school
High
school
To introduce different
professions and
occupations, working
tools and functions
according to the
profession, job roles
in our lives
Ability to identify and
develop own
personality, interests
and preferences
Ability to make a
preliminary
professional self-
determination based
on the opportunities
of professional
education
To have complete
idea about preferred
profession
To have professional
self-determination
based on the
demand of the labor
market.
State Standard of General Education, approved by Government of Armenia, 2021
Learning outcomes for graduates
Mandatory club in
curriculum:
“Career Guidance.
Career Management
skills development”
Mandatory club in
curriculum:
“Career Guidance”
Integrated in
existing subjects,
namely ‘Myself and
the world around
me’

4. METHODOLOGY
OF THE CAREER GUIDANCE
CLUBS IS BASED ON
In grade
34 hours per year
(one meeting per week)
In grade 11,
15 hours for the addition of
individual career path research.
The research is considered the
final assignment for students.
CAREER GUIDANCE PROGRAMM
DURATION IN THE
MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS
identifying the
student's personal
qualities,
preferences and
interests
providing
information
about world
of work
transferring
information
about education
and labor
demand
developing
career
management
skills

5. THANK YOU!
Tel: +374 91 201347
Email: haykuhi.gevorgyan@yahoo.com