In a world of the online, any company or organization attempts to remain on the market by any means possible. For this reason, in the virtual environment, marketing is reinventing itself. One of the marketing strategies used in the virtual environment is that of game elements introduction or even little games to attract new customers or to fidelize the current. Although at a first glimpse, gamefication is not an absolutely necessary strategy, gamefication could and should represent a new trend in counselling or education. Gamefication is an approach that uses game theory to increase user involvement in the proposed activity. Assuming that the game produces a state of relaxation and recreation, the proposed activity, regardless of the degree of difficulty is dealt and accepted by the user. This paper starts from the idea of using gamefication in online career counselling, just because induces the user a state of relaxation, state that usually does not accompanies career decision. We can add here the user/online client fear of being judged by a person- career counsellor, and being treated like a man who has a problem. Therefore, we propose in this paper an online game / application for career exploration and career advice. Firstly, we shall analyze advantages and disadvantages of this trend for online career counselling, then we shall try to describe the theoretical background of this game (Holland's theory, personal career map) and also the choices made for design step by step, and in the end we shall try to emphasize once more its usefulness. We believe that such a proposal can only revolutionize this field by making it more "user friendly".

A good teacher must develop a wide range of basic professional skills, such as designing learning activities; learning process management and monitoring; assessment for learning activities; ICT integration and use in education; knowledge of students' characteristics and learning styles, counseling and personalized teaching; classroom management; institutional development and school-community partnerships. ICT integration and use in education is a professional skill required in several areas of the teaching process: designing and implementing learning situations, assessing student learning, research, communication, etc. The use of ICT in educational activities stems from the early stages of ICT and Internet development. Processing information using computers was initially related to research and only later to the educational process. In recent years, ICT have become a key element that upholds a modern educational approach in an advanced society, whether it is classical education (which requires attending classes) or whether it is distance learning (both within the institutional educational system and the alternative systems of continuing professional development). Students attending the Academy of Economic Studies can opt for pedagogical and methodological training by enrolling in courses at the Department for Teacher Training in order to prepare for a teaching career. By attending this psycho-pedagogical module the students gain the professional knowledge and skills required for a teaching profession. In this paper the authors aim to address the topic of ICT in economic education from the perspective of collaborative learning and to present a study on ICT use by Economics students preparing for a teaching career in terms of ICT integration into the design and implementation of educational activities in teachers' daily practice. The study is based on a survey questionnaire addressed to third-year bachelor's students and second-year master's students who, in addition to specialized training, have opted for pedagogical training courses. Data collection, processing and analysis enables the authors (a) to determine the extent to which the respondents use ICT in the design and implementation of educational activities and their view on the significance of information technology as a tool for learning (b) to make a series of recommendations aimed at developing ICT skills in Economics students that are also training for a teaching career.

The challenges of living in a world of constant change and insecure environments, the stress of looking for a job and finding one that fits and motivates you is a stressful search for a student or a graduate. Offering a helping hand to students and graduates through counselling services appears to be the best idea so far. According to the 5th key message of the Memorandum of Lifelong Learning (Brussels, 2002) – Rethinking guidance and counselling, a new approach is needed to make counselling a better, more accessible service. This message together with the need to offer help to students and graduates suggests that counselling services should use more accessible channels to youth, like Internet. The online career counselling services offer a more attractive and facile manner of finding information about the world of careers and employment opportunities, a better way of knowing yourself and putting yourself in a good light, a easy manner of receiving a piece of advice – in fact a more pragmatic manner of learning about self and self-career using the internet. Learning mediated by internet, internet learning or e-learning how it is called today offer many possibilities for career counselling of students and graduate. In this paper we shall analyse the theoretical and practical challenges concerning this topic and we also present a research conducted to see the development of the Romanian e-counselling services offered to students and graduate in terms of mission, methods of counselling, proposed activities and available resources and so on. In the end we shall try to suggest a few ways of development of these services.

The constant development of computer and communication technologies requires lately, the transfer from real/reality to virtual into new areas such as career counselling of students. The views presented by various specialists reveals that the counselling activities have to improve its methods of investigation of personality as a basic element to stimulate self-knowledge and personal development of students. The students are a special group of beneficiaries of counselling services that are concerned about their professional future, building a professional image and personal branding elements. Using new technologies, the rapidity through wich students have access to virtual information, elements of social media, personal branding are factors to be considered in providing qualitative guidance and counseling services to students. Trying to answer this need we have developed a set of activities of career counseling students that combines direct, face to face counseling, with the on-line counseling and which aims to build a professional image that includes the virtual image component. This paper clarifies, in the first part the basic concepts such as career counseling, career counseling methods, real and virtual professional image, elements of social media in the construction of the virtual image. In the second part of the paper there are analyzed face to face and online counseling activities carried out with a group of 30 students of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.The results recorded can be considered a model of good practice in the field of career counseling. The paper concludes by highlighting some possible future actions in the field of counseling that combines traditional counseling methods with modern methods (virtual counseling).