TVETipedia Glossary

Vocational guidance

Involves helping individuals to learn about opportunities for education, training and work and facilitating their career planning. It includes vocational orientation and counselling and may be given in schools, training centres, or undertaken in specialised offices or institutions.

Source:
NCVER (Australia), VOCEDplus: Glossary of VET, (accessed 05/2026)
NCVER (Australia), VOCEDplus: Glossary of VET, (accessed 05/2026)
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This glossary is a compilation of Australian vocational education and training (VET) terms and acronyms. It includes both current and historical terms, concepts, acronyms and other abbreviations found in Australian VET research, policy and data.

Advice and direction given to people to enable them to make an informed choice about the kind of working life for which they are suited and which matches their aspirations.

Source:
Ministry of Labour, VTC, Department of statistics, National Centre of Human Resources, Glossary of selected terminology: The labour market and vocational education and training - Occupational safety and health. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 2005 - Not available online
Ministry of Labour, VTC, Department of statistics, National Centre of Human Resources, Glossary of selected terminology: The labour market and vocational education and training - Occupational safety and health. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 2005 - Not available online
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Glossary requested by the Ministry of labour of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – as part of its activities to foster capacity building. It was assisted in this task by the International Training Centre (ILO, Turin). The International Training Centre worked in collaboration with the local expert Ahmed Mustafa. The expert was responsible for the coordination of the project, ensuring constant communication and collaboration between the concerned authorities in Jordan, especially the following:
-Ministry of labour.
-VTC (Vocational training centers).
-Department of statistics.
-National Centre for human resources development/Al Manar-information system project development human resources

Assistance given to an individual in solving problems related to occupational choice and progress.

Source:
ILO, ILO Thesaurus, (accessed 10/2022)
ILO, ILO Thesaurus, (accessed 10/2022)
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Terms relating to the world of work in English, French, and Spanish.