Centres for Promotion to Employment - K.P.A.

The Centres for Promotion to Employment in their total comprise the steam engine for the work done by the Greek Manpower Employment Organization-OAED in the area of Vocational Guidance and Employment.
The KPAs provide information about employment, vocational guidance or career counselling and placement. To this end the Centres apply an individual and/or group approach to support methods and procedures targeting mainly the unemployed. The aim is to help them find a job on the basis of their skills and qualifications. In addition the KPAs facilitate labour mobility.
In locations where KPAs do not have a presence, their services are available through OAED establishments (e.g. Employment Offices) at a local and regional level. The KPAs were established to address the needs of the following groups of people:

• long-term unemployed
• the young or old unemployed
• those threatened by unemployment
• school drop-outs and in search of work or training
• redundant owing to previous employer business failure
• vulnerable social groups: people with special needs, repatriates, rehabilitated addicts, women, single-parent families, etc.
• the young and old seeking reorientation owing to obsolescence of previous skills
• individuals interested in labour mobility - in which case they are referred to a Eurocounsellor.

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• help himself / herself, under the guidance of the Counsellor, to look for a job (either through the Employment Office or independently),
• search and apply for a training programme where specialization is required for carrying out one’s vocational action plan. This action plan is designed jointly by the individual and the Counsellor,
• participate in a Job Search Guidance group, particularly when the individual is a long-term unemployed. This also applies to individuals who, owing to long economic, social, psychological and family hardships, are in need of specialized support to re-enter the labour market. Participation in the Job Search Guidance groups offers the targeted individual(s) encouragement, tools and techniques to successfully meet the requirements of an interview, skills to organize and write one’s curriculum vitae, help in drafting one’s personal vocational action plan, techniques to keep one’s job and, where warranted, information with respect to inclusion in advanced Vocational Guidance processes.