While the individual support for learning and career development before 1989 was scarce and the need for it was little acknoledged by the students, currently the guidance and counselling support become an important part of educational institutions. The growth of the guidance and counselling system were exponentially in the last two decades and the community of guidance practitioners developed an own ethos and practice. Naturally, a focus point of the current debate deals with the integration of the new web 2.0 tools in the guidance and counselling activity. The present article explores how Romanian guidance counsellors from pre-university and higher education level are using web.2.0. technologies in their activity. It further develops the analysis of a previous article based on a national sample survey published in the ELSE conference in 2014, this time further exploring the issues of employing social technologies in career guidance and portraying the distribution of the investigated variables. The aim is to inform and provide empirical evidence for designing the training programmes and the professional development activities of the guidance counsellors aiming to developing their ICT skills. The benefits of the Web 2.0 technologies and the ways the guidance counsellors organize their social web based activities are listed and the survey results are explored by analyzing possible causes and implications: frequency of use; effective web 2.0 tools for guidance and counselling, barriers in using the web 2.0 tools; level of pupil engagement in the online collaborative guidance activities. Further opportunities for professional exchange of experiences and exploration of effective use of web 2.0 tools for guidance are proposed as well as indication of training needs for specific groups.

career counselling, educational and vocational guidance, ecounselling, collaborative online tools