Global labour markets are changing at an ever-increasing pace, with new demands being made in terms of 21st Century Skills (OECD, 2018), new skills for new jobs (Europe2020), digitisation and automation. People who are unqualified, or who have lower qualification levels and those that are unskilled (whether unemployed or working in unskilled and low-skilled occupations) face the greatest risks from these changes, in terms of precarious employment, insecure and unhealthy working conditions and frequent periods of unemployment. This in turn results in embedded poverty and social exclusion in society. Access to lifelong learning, in work-progression and C-VET (continuous vocational and educational training) can offer a way out of unemployment and unskilled employment. However access to appropriate opportunities and pathways to break out of these circumstances is significantly dependent upon the availability of knowledgeable, relevant and effective vocational guidance. In many contexts in Europe. Guidance practitioners themselves are operating in a changing European labour market, in which the ability to understand and anticipate skills and modern work requirements is vital to being able to effectively support un- and low-skilled and un-and low-qualified people. Furthermore, Guidance practitioners themselves require new forms of C-VET and occupational development, new methods and techniques required to ensure that as their profession itself changes, their service is current, relevant, accessible and effective for those who are in real danger of being left ever-further behind. EMPLOYMENT PLUS addressed this challenge by focusing on guidance practitioners who are a crucial link between low- and unqualified job-seekers and the labour market. Often, guidance practitioners work in institutions whose guidance offers are not specifically designed for low- skilled and unqualified persons and do not specifically address their needs. They often use methods developed for higher educated clients or for unemployed people in general, focussing more on job-seeking and on job matching than equipping their clients with resilience, vocational orientation and on participation in C-VET. The overall aim of EMPLOYMENT PLUS was to support the adaptation and integration of guidance services in Europe, ensuring that they are modernised and relevant, highlighting and removing high-threshold barriers for effective interventions with those that are low and unskilled and those that have no or low levels of qualifications. A vital part of EEP was contributing to a consistent European criteria of success for guidance practice addressing labour market participants that are un- and low skilled and unqualified. The definition of European guidelines for guidance practitioners dealing with this target group as well as guidance methods, in the form of learning activities, which were developed by the project partners forming the EEP curriculum and facilitators guide (IO3 and 4). Thus, EMPLOYMENT PLUS achieved its objectives by designing, testing and adopting new learning interventions for vocational guidance practitioners, specifically: - developing new guidance methods - testing and establishing good practices and success criteria for relevant vocational guidance services - producing occupational guidance for professional guidance practice - creating ready-to-use methods for guidance practitioners, supported by a multilingual, universally accessible online database and a digital skills check tool - a newly designed set of learning modules and curriculum programme, supported by e-learning resources The work programme included: (1) defining common quality assurance criteria through evaluating international good practice that evidences effectiveness in reaching and helping the target group (2) designing and testing new learning strategies and creating structured guidance for guidance practitioners to work effectively with the target group of low and unqualified job-seekers (3) the development of 60 new guidance methods for group and single settings that will enhance progression for those that are low- skilled and unqualified EMPLOYMENT PLUS created a work-based learning solution directly relevant to the CPD needs of guidance practitioners, through peer and action learning design, supported by open source digital learning materials available and accessible 24/7. It will equip vocational guidance practitioners to enhance the employability of low- and unqualified and low and un-skilled labour market participants by - enhancing the participants motivation to participate in C-VET and in-work progression - strengthening learning technique skills. - improving their career development and progression skills (potential analysis skills, labour market information skills, validation of formally and informally-acquired competencies)