Career guidance for adults helps to motivate adults to train and to help address the challenges brought about by rapidly changing skill needs. Such services are particularly important amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, as many adults have lost jobs and require assistance navigating their career options in the changed labour market.

The Council of Ministers adopted the "Integrated Skills Strategy 2030 (detailed part)" (Zintegrowana Strategia Umiejętności. Część szczegółowa) by resolution No. 195/2020 of December 28, 2020. Integrated Skills Strategy 2030 has the status of a public policy and in accordance with the provisions of the amended Act of 15 July 2020 on the principles of development policy, it defines the basic conditions, goals and directions of the country's development in the social, economic and spatial dimensions of a given field or area, which result directly from the country's medium-term development strategy, i.e. the Strategy for Responsible Development.

The ministers in charge of vocational education and training (VET) in the EU Member States, candidate countries and EEA countries, the European social partners and the European Commission endorsed on 30 November the ‘Osnabrück declaration on VET as an enabler of recovery and just transitions to digital and green economies’.