This handbook has been developed in the framework of a projectcalled Counselling Returning Migrants and Unemployed – Back to Work, a project carried out between 2011-2013 by a group of partner organisations from Romania, Germany, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, and Bulgaria. The concept of this instrument was built on previous developments, regarding the steps of the validation process (Vinepac project – Validation of Informal and Non-Formal Psycho-Pedagogical Competencies of Adult Educators: www.vinepac.eu, 2006-2008), the tools to identify the competencies acquired informally from everyday life (FamCompass project – Family Competencies Portfolio, 2007-2009), and the concept of training career counsellors (Acced project – Continuing Education Designed for Counsellors Working in Adult Education: http://acced.euproject.org/, 2005-2007). As a Leonardo daVinci Transfer of innovation project, Back to Work was drawing upon the competency based models of these projects, aiming to develop a training and validation tool that will support counsellors in working with unemployed people, including low skilled, those without few or no qualifications, and returning migrants.