GENERAL EDUCATION SCHOOL CAREER SPECIALIST’S ROLE DEVELOPING STUDENT CAREER COMPETENCIES

In Lithuanian context, professional consultation, information and career education is considered one of the most important factors, encouraging occupation, labour force adaptation to market conditions, entrepreneurship and equal possibilities. Lately, it is more and more related to social and economic policy. General education school and the subjects functioning in it: the students themselves, class teachers, subject teachers, administration play the main role in career education process. A special role in students' career education have career specialists. School career specialist helps the student to cognise his professional calling, personal abilities, interests, to acquire career planning and its management abilities, to accumulate necessary knowledge and skills, general competencies for career goal implementation, to learn flexibly react to changes, to be able to make appropriate decisions, to acquire lifelong learning motivation, to solve personal life questions. School has to assure effective development of career competencies, which are necessary to consciously and successfully create and manage your career, and respecting student's inclinations, values and abilities, to help him cognise himself, the activity world, and to choose future career.