This abstract was prepared for the IAEVG 2019 Conference in Bratislava “Career Guidance for Inclusive Society” as a modified and shortened version of an already published article in Hungarian . The original aim of the article was to argue the changing nature of career development vs. the still standing traditional-survival values in Hungary and the also changing – and more polarized – nature of paid work where entry jobs lost its nature of serving as springboard for a better career (Standing, 2011, Piketty, 2014, Bell-Benes, 2012). This global tendency was cross-analysed with the very different regional values based on data of the World Values Survey (WVS), where Hungary and Central-Eastern-Europe after 40 years of Communism (1947-1990) and 30 years of transformation (1990-2019) period still stands as a traditional-survival values region (WVS, wave 6, Inglehart, – Welzel, 2015).
This fact has strong implications for careering and the daily routine of career counselling and guidance in Hungary and in the region. The use of the individual work value inventory in practice need to be connected with counsellors’ knowledge and understanding about the values and trust in the society as such. It requires a cross-disciplinary training of the counsellors where sociology is equally present during the training and CPD. In practice the adaptation of any counsellors’ tool, techniques in the local context would require a detailed analysis of the “social contract” (Rousseau) in place as we can see from the Hungarian case this adaptation step is partly missing or for example the adopted counsellors’ tools such as Super WVI haven’t been adjusted since the 1980’s. The acquisition of such tools in the daily practice of the professionals may have negative consequences on the ethical practice as well as negative effects on the clients’ careers.
