Employment and vocational integration consultant

Employment and vocational integration consultants offer assistance to unemployed individuals in finding jobs or vocational training opportunities, according to their educational or professional background and experience.They advise them on how to market their skills in the job-hunting process. Employment and vocational integration consultants help job-seekers write CVs and cover letters, prepare for a job interview and indicate where to search for new job or training opportunities.

Dutiese

Their duties are typically to:

• Assess clients’ career aspirations, skills, experience, and obstacles to employment through interviews and diagnostic tools.
• Develop personalized action plans focused on employability, training, job placement, and long-term stability.
• Provide career advice, job-search coaching, CV/resume development, and interview preparation.
• Connect clients with vocational training, language courses, certification programs, and apprenticeships.
• Liaise with employers to identify job openings and match candidates to appropriate roles.
• Facilitate workshops or group sessions on soft skills, workplace behavior, job market navigation, and self-confidence.
• Support clients in accessing social services (housing, childcare, transportation, etc.) that may affect employment integration.
• Monitor progress, provide encouragement, and adjust plans as needed to help clients stay on track.
• Maintain accurate records and prepare reports for funders, public employment services, or partner organizations.
• Collaborate with local agencies, NGOs, training providers, and community organizations to build support networks for clients.

The following job titles also refer to employment and vocational integration consultant:

outplacement consultant
job placement adviser
vocational counsellor
career mentor
job placement consultant
corporate coach
job placement expert
career coach
vocational adviser
public employment service consultant
vocational expert
job coach
business coach
outplacement expert

Employment and Vocational Integration Consultants typically work in job centers, vocational training organizations, community centers, or non-profit agencies. The job involves a mix of one-on-one client meetings, administrative tasks, employer outreach, and collaboration with partner services. Work hours are usually standard weekdays, but some flexibility may be needed for client availability or outreach events. The role requires empathy, resilience, cultural sensitivity, and a genuine commitment to helping individuals succeed.

Education: A bachelor’s degree in career counseling, psychology, education, social work, human resources, or a related field is typically required. A master’s degree in guidance, social inclusion, or employment policy may be beneficial.

Experience: Previous experience in employment services, career development, social work, or training coordination is often preferred. Experience working with vulnerable or marginalized populations is highly valued.

Training: Skills in vocational assessment, case management, motivational interviewing, and knowledge of local labor markets are essential.

ISCO skill level is defined as a function of the complexity and range of tasks and duties to be performed in an occupation. It is measured on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 the lowest level and 4 the highest, by considering:

• the nature of the work performed in an occupation in relation to the characteristic tasks and duties
• the level of formal education required for competent performance of the tasks and duties involved and
• the amount of informal on-the-job training and/or previous experience in a related occupation required for competent performance of these tasks and duties.

Employment and vocational integration consultant is a Skill level 4 occupation.

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This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of employment and vocational integration consultant.

• Labour legislation: Legislation, on a national or international level, that governs labour conditions in various fields between labour parties such as the government, employees, employers, and trade unions.
• Job market offers: Job opportunities available on the labour market, depending on the economic field concerned.
• Online job platforms: Online platforms which display job offers.
• Employment law: The law which mediates the relationship between employees and employers. It concerns employees’ rights at work which are binding by the work contract.

These skills are necessary for the role of employment and vocational integration consultant.

• Teach writing: Teach basic or advanced writing principles to varying age groups in a fixed eduction organisation setting or by running private writing workshops.
• Give advice on personal matters: Advise people on love and marriage issues, business and job opportunities, health or other personal aspects.
• Interview people: Interview people in a range of different circumstances.
• Identify customer’s needs: Use appropriate questions and active listening in order to identify customer expectations, desires and requirements according to product and services.
• Facilitate job market access: Improve the chances of individuals to find a job, by teaching the required qualifications and interpersonal skills, through training and development programs, workshops or employment projects.
• Maintain privacy of service users: Respect and maintain the dignity and privacy of the client, protecting his or her confidential information and clearly explaining policies about confidentiality to the client and other parties involved.
• Use communication techniques: Apply techniques of communication which allow interlocutors to better understand each other and communicate accurately in the transmission of messages.
• Observe confidentiality: Observe the set of rules establishing the nondisclosure of information except to another authorised person.
• Prepare for job interview: Make someone ready to deal with job interviews, by advising on communication, body language and appearance, going through frequently asked questions, and identifying personal and professional strengths and weaknesses.
• Listen actively: Give attention to what other people say, patiently understand points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times; able to listen carefully the needs of customers, clients, passengers, service users or others, and provide solutions accordingly.
• Develop professional network: Reach out to and meet up with people in a professional context. Find common ground and use your contacts for mutual benefit. Keep track of the people in your personal professional network and stay up to date on their activities.
• Communicate by telephone: Liaise via telephone by making and answering calls in a timely, professional and polite manner.
• Document interviews: Record, write, and capture answers and information collected during interviews for processing and analysis using shorthand or technical equipment.
• Profile people: Create a profile of someone, by outlining this person’s characteristics, personality, skills and motives, often by the use of information obtained from an interview or questionnaire.
• Develop course outline: Research and establish an outline of the course to be taught and calculate a time frame for the instructional plan in accordance with school regulations and curriculum objectives.

This knowledge is sometimes, but not always, required for the role of employment and vocational integration consultant. However, mastering this knowledge allows you to have more opportunities for career development.

• Advertising techniques: The communication strategies intended to persuade or encourage an audience, and the different media which are used to achieve this goal.
• Market analysis: The field of market analysis and research and its particular research methods.

These skills and competences are sometimes, but not always, required for the role of employment and vocational integration consultant. However, mastering these skills and competences allows you to have more opportunities for career development.

• Deliver online training: Provide training by using online technologies, adapting the learning materials, using e-learning methods and communicating online. Instruct virtual classrooms.
• Implement customer follow-up: Implement strategies that ensures post-sale follow up of customer satisfaction or loyalty regarding one’s product or service.
• Apply social media marketing: Employ website traffic of social media such as Facebook and Twitter to generate attention and participation of existing and potential customers through discussion forums, web logs, microblogging and social communities for gaining a quick overview or insight into topics and opinions in the social web and handle inbound leads or inquiries.
• Assess character: Assess how a certain person will react, verbally or physically, in a specific situation or to a specific happening.
• Negotiate employment agreements: Find agreements between employers and potential employees on salary, working conditions and non-statutory benefits.
• Maintain professional administration: File and organise professional administration documents comprehensively, keep customer records, fill in forms or log books and prepare documents about company-related matter.
• Fix meetings: Fix and schedule professional appointments or meetings for clients or superiors.
• Organise training: Make the necessary preparations to conduct a training session. Provide equipment, supplies and exercise materials. Ensure the training runs smoothly.
• Write work-related reports: Compose work-related reports that support effective relationship management and a high standard of documentation and record keeping. Write and present results and conclusions in a clear and intelligible way so they are comprehensible to a non-expert audience.
• Administer appointments: Accept, schedule and cancel appointments.
• Relate empathetically: Recognise, understand and share emotions and insights experienced by another.
• Liaise with colleagues: Liaise with fellow colleagues to ensure common understanding on work related affairs and agree on the necessary compromises the parties might need to face. Negotiate compromises between parties as to ensure that work in general run efficiently towards the achievement of the objectives.
• Apply knowledge of human behaviour: Practice principles related to group behaviour, trends in society, and influence of societal dynamics.
• Work in vocational school: Work in a vocational school that instructs students in practical courses.
• Develop employee retention programs: Plan, develop, and implement programs aimed at keeping the satisfaction of the employees in the best levels. Consequently, assuring the loyalty of employees.

2423 – Personnel and careers professionals 

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References

1. Employment and vocational integration consultant – ESCO
2. Featured image: By Fort Rucker – Class helps job seekers with search, CC BY 2.0