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Thank you for agreeing to participate in the project OCCAY - Online Career Counselling Accademy. Co-funded by Erasmus+, OCCAY helps career counsellors all over Europe to estimate and improve their digital skills, navigate the digital world with confidence and provide professional online career consulting.

The current self-assessment test offers you a simple and uncomplicated way to evaluate your own digital competences, which are relevant for your everyday professional life in guidance. The results will show you your strengths, but also your development potential in the area of digitalisation. In this way, you will help us to develop exactly the training content that is really needed, gathering information to develop effective online consulting tools for career counsellors as well (for further information on OCCAY, please, check www.occay.eu). In the next questions, you will see different situations related to the application of digital skills into the practice in your working environment. Answer them, in order to assess your own competencies. Let's start!


Test Duration: Approx. 15 min

Before starting, we'd like to ask you to give us a first self-evaluation of your own skills: how dou you think you are skilled in using digital tools, such as: mobile and online apps, social media, online communication, office tools in your daily life?*
A client is experienced with installation and maintenance of solar panels but is currently out of job. He asks for your help with seeking employment as he tried searching the internet but get lost among the different websites and the numerous non-tailored vacancies*
solarpanel
Which function can be used to open job platform websites faster the next times?*
Please, read this mail and mark on the list below all the clues of the following text that you make you think it is a fake one. (Multiple answers possible)*
email

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While you were searching information for national data about unemployment, you find a research with the following graphs. Which of the sectors has the lowest level of Digitalization of work?*
Digitalization

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According to the European Central Bank, how has the labour force participation changed from 2008 to 2019?*
LabourMarket

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Which employees' skill is stronger?*
Skills

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Your client would like to find a professional pastry course not too far away. Which of the following options would you suggest to type on search engine?*
typing
Many websites appear. How would you select the most reliable schools?*
Where can you find the most credible information about professional pastry course providers?*

Please assess your ability in using the following programs to organize information, data and documents in your daily work.

Rate from 1 (not able to use it) to 6 (proficient) – If you don´t know the program you can skip the question

MS Teams
Trello
googledrive
slack
How can you move your client's High School diploma within the right google drive's folder? (Multiple answers possible)*
MyDrive

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Do you use LinkedIn?*
linkedin
Which LinkedIn section would allow your client to search a community that share and support his/her interests and goals?*
Which section would allow him/her to start following recommended people for him/her?*
How can you or your client search for job ads from a potential employer on LinkedIn?*
How can your client grow his/her LinkedIn network in a reputable way?*
Do you know Zoom?*
videocall
Your client is having troubles connecting to an ONLINE job interview. He/she clicked on the Zoom link sent by the interviewer but did not know he/she had to install Zoom on his/her computer. He/she is 5 minutes late for the interview and calls you to get some help. You ask him/her to tell you what he/she sees:*
Zoom
His/her wifi is not too stable and it is taking too long time to open Zoom*
He/she opened Zoom but realizes his/her background is very chaotic*
You were asked by your manager if you could give a seminar on educational and career guidance. You have agreed but are not sure how to organise the day. However, the agenda is still not clear. In order to speed up your work:*
meetingroom
What does it mean "netiquette"?*
You have decided to create a internal business chat group at your company with your colleagues. In this chat there's a new member of the company:*
whatsapp
The new member starts to write in all caps, but without any hostile attitude*

How much do you think are the following items important

Rating from 1 (not at all) to 6 (a lot)?

Please, self-assess your ability in using the following programe

Rating from 1 (I'm not able to use it) to 6 (proficient) – If you don´t know the program you can skip the question

canva
powerpoint
prezi
adobeacrobat
photoshop
msoffice
padlet
Your client asked you to support him/her with the application documents, especially with the CV. How do you get templates for CVs that meet today's standards in order to let you work efficiently?*
cv
Which tool allows you to convert a PDF into a Word?*
Which tool allows you to add new text?*
Which tool allows you to insert another PDF?*

If you need to present an annual report on your working activities, how much are you able to produce the following contents?

Please, select from 1 (not able at all) to 6 (I'm absolutely able to do it)

You are creating a handbook for job-seekers. You have found a lot of useful materials online - articles, images, videos. Which licence will guarantee to download, modify and use the article/image/video to be furthermore used for your purposes?*
Which one would allow you to use the work for commercial purposes provided that the author is named?*
Which ones are positive features of a good anti-virus? (Multiple answers possible)*

Please rate the following statements

I always check whether a website is covered by an SSL certificate, which protects data communication, via the padlock icon next to the URL*
I use services such as TrustPilot to check reviews of a site and the user experiences of other users*
I use services such as MyWOT and Password Checkup to assess whether a site is secure*
I use password managers like LastPassword, Tresore One, to generate different passwords*
  • C@REERC0UNSELLING
  • c@areercounsellor
  • CAREERCOUNSELLOR
Your company has decided to digitally convert all the administrative documents and related procedure. From today, you need to register all your new clients in your database. A new client applies and she submitted all digital documents (CV, certificates and ID):*
list
After the registration procedure has been completed, you contact your client and invite her to a skype meeting. During the meeting, when it comes to introduce how her data will be treated by your company:*
What are the advantages of an e-signature? (Multiple answers possible)*

You have to upload a PDF file on your organizations' website on WordPress, but you have a problem. What would you do?

Please, select between 1 (absolutely not) to 6 (very much)

Try to do it myself*
Ask colleagues*
Use the Help function*
Try to find video tutorials*
Call an ICT expert*
Use FAQs in the platform*
A client of yours has found a remote job offer by a foreign employer. The job posting is in your national language, but the client wants to find additional information on the employers' website. How could you help the client translate the information?*
translation
A client of yours lives abroad but plans to return to your country, so he asks you to organize a counselling session online:*
counselling
Your client wants to kick off an online activity as social media manager*

How much do you agree with the following?

Please rate from 1 (I absolutely don't agree) to 6 (I definetely agree)

I manage my weekly schedule in order to dedicate a good part of it to learn new things*
I have basic knowledge of career podcasts, magazines and associations*
I daily read news about educational and career guidance on the digital context*
I know which are my digital needs and I can identify the learning offer which can support me in learning new skills/starting a process of upskilling*
I get information about digital skills and gaps from CEDEFOP, EU and Europass material*
What country do you work in?*
Gender:*
How many years of practice do you have in career guidance, counseling, information and training of clients?*
Education level:*
How many years have you been applying digital technologies in your work?*
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