1. CO-ORIENTATION©: A COLLABORATIVE METHOD TO GUIDE STUDENTS’ DECISION-MAKING TO A RIGHT FIRST JOB
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Nathalie Chelin, Siegfried Rouvrais, Département Langues et Culture Internationale (IMT Atlantique - LCI), IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Département Informatique (IMT Atlantique - INFO), Lab-STICC_IMTA_CACS_MOCS, Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance (Lab-STICC), École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bretagne Loire (UBL)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bretagne Loire (UBL)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), This work was possible thanks to the DecisionShip Ahoy project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union (www.dahoyproject.eu), and DAhoy
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career decision ,[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education ,4. Education ,lifelong learning ,peer learning ,Orientation (graph theory) ,coaching ,Human–computer interaction ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Professional identity ,co-development ,career / employment guidance ,employability ,Psychology ,Collaborative method - Abstract
International audience; Career preparation courses or support for higher education students have been strengthened, following some recommendations of international quality assurance standards. This paper presents feedback about a method implementation of collaborative learning practices on career guidance at a French graduate engineering school. The co-orientation© method relies upon groups of students applying simple and original pedagogical input, paced over time. The aim is to provide students with a proven method to facilitate decision-making for future professional mobility, throughout careers that will be subject to the vagaries of a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous international markets. The method approaches career preparation through positive psychology that promotes self-fulfilment and self-actualisation. It adapts co-development facilitation techniques to ensure neutrality and empathy, feedback seeking, as well as a peer-learning pedagogy derived from cognitive psychology. The course is structured in six capsule sessions of two hours each and presented in the paper with learning outcomes. The method can thus be quickly integrated as a ready-to-go toolkit in career training courses, to allow any university to implement it more easily and autonomously.
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- 2020