After the radical change of the socio-political and economic system of the 1990s in Romania, significant
efforts have had to be made in order to overcome the conceptual and action gap existing in the domain of career
counselling. We shall here highlight some of the aspects, that still hinder initiatives in this domain: lack/
insufficiency of a coherent legal frame in this domain; incomplete structure of professional standards, as well as of
the legal and ethical rules which must be complied with in exerting specific attributions; poor informing of the
public opinion regarding the specific activities and competences of the career counsellor; reduced involvement in
identifying the level of awareness concerning the need for counselling among the active population; teenagers’
growing career indecision (with long-term impact upon unemployment and increased labour migration); the
superficial and, sometimes, formal way in which career counselling is conducted in pre-university education;
insufficient and inappropriate involvement of the family in the career counselling process.