The Career Management Skills (CMS) are those skills that every person must have to manage independently and consciously their choices of study and work. Reflection on this issue is a fundamental element in the organization of guidance services, in order to guarantee every student and every person in life transitions phases the adequate guidance pathways to make the right step, to select the best opportunities, to apply effectively for jobs.

For this purpose the LE.A.DE.R. Project partnership has started a testing phase of the model, with identification of "pilot actions" in each country involved, in order to integrate the Career Management Skills framework as part of the main guidance services, from schools to employment offices, from professional training to guidance and placement services of the universities.

On 4th October 2016 was held the second International Conference of the LE.A.DE.R Project in Athens organized by Athens University of Economics and Business – AUEB named "Lifelong guidance in Europe: The shift to Career Management Skills Development".

Europe has centered lifelong guidance policies on the concept of Career Management Skills (CMS), which identifies the skills that each person should have to manage autonomously and consciously their choices of study and work.
The theme of Career Management Skills is crucial to design and organize the guidance services, in order to guarantee every student and every person in the moment of transition and choise useful guidance and advise to make the right step, to select the best opportunities, to apply effectively a new job.

On May 5th and 6th 2015 the LE.A.DE.R Project partnership met in Adana (Turkey) for the Second Transnational meeting hosted by Cucurova University, the Turkish partner of the project. The partnership reviewed the results of the first stage of the project and Derby University presented the results of the international survey on career management skills realized by focus groups with practitioners and by on line questionnaires collected in the partner countries.