Placement

The Placementcertificate programme has been provided at both the Mannheim and Schwerin campus of the University of Applied Labour Studies since November 2016 and stretches over two semesters. The programme starts in January and ends in December, and every study cohort is limited to 80 participants.

The aim of the "Placement" certificate programme is to develop an academically sound understanding of professional placement and counselling and to reflect on such in a practical context, within employee-oriented placement and counselling of people experiencing all kinds of transitions into the education and employment system as well as in employer-oriented counselling. This further development of the placement specialists' advisory skills ensures a consistently high level of qualification in placement.

The placement certificate programme complements the qualification portfolio of the university, and is limited to 80 participants per study cohort. The programme aims at employees of the National Employment Agency who work in the operative areas of employee-oriented placement and counselling and have at least two years of experience in this field. Registration for participants for the placement certificate programme, which starts once a year, is through the regional offices at least eight weeks before the start of Group A following a request to the HdBA..

Participants receive a certificate of attendance at the end of the certificate programme. Those who would like to complete the certificate programme with a university certificate are asked to send in the documents required for the admission up to two weeks after the first on-campus phase. The admission procedure and the admission requirements for the certificate programme can be found in the admission regulations. Alongside a first degree qualifying for a profession or successfully completed job training, applicants must also be able to demonstrate at least two years of qualified professional experience as an employee in the legal system of SGB II or SGB III. The students' rights and obligations for contact studies are laid out in the study and examination regulations. Students receive detailed information on the admission procedure in the first on-campus session.

Participants gain knowledge in the field of professional skills, in particular knowledge about the person being counselled and the reference systems surrounding them as well as their interaction, for the academically based further development of placement and counselling skills.

• Goal setting and area of responsibility of placement and counselling
• Understanding professional counselling
• Target group and context-specific analysis of placement and counselling processes
• Training and professional processes
• Education and employment systems
• Professional skills models
• Interface and network management
• The future of work
• Participation in working life

Within the 12-month certificate programme "Placement", all three modules must be taken one after the other. It is compulsory for all participants to take module 01 ("Target group & context-specific counselling") and 02 ("Professional background and skills"). In module 03, participants specialise within the programme either in module 03A "The future of work" or 03B "Participation in working life".

For participants who have been admitted (who wish to obtain a certificate) the second distance-learningphase of a module is proceeded by the examination period. If all examinations have been passed, the successful candidate receives 5 ECTS credits per module (15 ECTS credits for the whole programme) and a HdBA university certificate. The certificate programme is a work-related qualification.

The programme is proceeded by a reflection unit of 1.5 reflection days at the HdBA in Mannheim or Schwerin, which – regardless of the chosen specialisation – takes place about 6 to 8 months after the end of the certificate programme.