List of Internet websites and online resources for guidance and career education

• www.anofm.ro website of the National Agency for Employment provides labor market information, job vacancies, organizing job fairs work and links to County Employment Agencies.
• www.go.ise.ro GO program includes a Guide of Occupations (GO) for users who need assistance in choosing an occupation and looking for a job. This guide:
  - Provides information on approximately 700 occupations in text and image;
  - Offers a variety of ways to choose the most suitable occupation according to interests, skills and other criteria;
  - Provides advice and information for successful entry and re-entry to the labor market.
  
• www.edu.ro website of the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, provides information for teachers, students and parents about educational legislation in the system, project funding for schools, opportunities for study, initial and ongoing training and professional development.
• http://ec.europa.eu/eures EURES provides information about job vacancies in 31 European countries, submitting CVs from interested candidates, conditions for work and study abroad, and more.
• http://europa.eu/youth European Youth Program provides information about youth projects at European funding programs, opportunities for work and study. This site facilitates communication between young people across Europe.
• http://ec.europa.eu/ploteus PLOTEUS (Portal on Learning within the European Space) is a portal that aims to help those seeking a job, the parents, teachers and career counselors to find information about opportunities to study and work in Europe.
• http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass;
• http://www.europass-ro.ro EUROPASS is a way to help people make their professional skills and competencies easy and clear to understand in Europe (European Union, EFTA / EEA and candidate countries) and move anywhere in Europe. This site is useful for those who plan to enroll in a program of study / training or looking for a job abroad.
• www.llp-ro.ro Lifelong Learning Programme is funded by the European Commission program which aims generally to contribute through lifelong learning to the development of the EU as an advanced knowledge-based economy, with sustainable economic growth, more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, while ensuring environmental protection for future generations, to foster interchange, cooperation and mobility between education and training systems within the Community so that they become a world reference benchmark in terms of quality
• www.tinact.ro "Youth in Action" is the EU program that supports non-formal learning activities for young people, by funding projects. This is the continuation of the "Youth" and will be implemented between 2007 - 2013. The program, with funding from the European Commission, aims to promote active citizenship among young people, to develop feelings of solidarity and tolerance, supporting mutual understanding between young people in different countries, to promote European cooperation and contribution to improving the quality of support systems for youth activities.
• www.psychology.ro The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the "Babes - Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca offers graduate courses for teachers.
• www.cedu.ro The "Education 2000+" Center provides training for teachers and adolescents, as well as educational programs in career counseling.
• www.ilo.org Through the Office of the National Correspondent in Romania, the International Labour Organization (ILO) promotes fundamental rights of labor, improving living and working conditions by increasing employment opportunities and development programs for eliminatig child labor.
• www.cognitrom.ro Cognitrom is a company that offers psychological testing instruments for career guidance, tests to assess cognitive skills (eg BTPAC - Battery of Psychological Tests of Cognitive Ability, CAS - Cognitrom Assessment System, NEPSY - Neuropsychological diagnosis tool for age group 3-12 years) and training to use these tools.
• http://romania.testcentral.ro/ro/ Testcentral is a consortium of test publishers, i.e. consultancy companies specialized in the adjustment, calibration, publishing and distribution of psychometric instruments. Testcentral is a project that contributes to the development of professional psychology in Romania. The project focused on the maximum apparent competence of its members: psychodiagnosis and psychological evaluation. The primary objective of Testcentral is to bring in Romania under license as many internationally recognized psychometric tests as possible.
• www.bestjobs.ro
• www.myjob.ro
• www.ejobs.ro

What is important to know about the websites which mediate jobs?

• Most sites have a dual structure: one for employers and one for people who are looking for a job. The first step is to get a username and a password which you can use to access the users area. For registration, you must give a valid e-mail address and some personal information (eg, date of birth, city, occupation, industry). It is important to give an existing email address for the system to send you an e-mail confirmation, where you can activate your account. Creating an account is usually free of charge.
• If you want to consult the online offerings, you are not required to create an account. However, some sites allow you to access all available offers only after registration.
• If you already have an account, you can use the resume management service. When completing the online CV you need to give more general personal data (phone number, address), details on work experience (business, job, area, period of employment, responsibilities, accomplishments, references), details on studies, job skills and information, expectations for this and other information. Beware of the required fields! In some cases you can add a photo to your resume.
• Some sites offer the possibility to send and receive messages within the created account or sign up for job alerts.
• The way to search for jobs can be organized by multiple criteria: keywords, city, area or career level and form of employment (full time, part time, projects and so on).