With a vocational orientation measure, you as a measure provider or education service provider give pupils an in-depth insight into the world of work and professions and provide them with more clarity in their choice of training or study. In doing so, you provide them with practical impressions of the world of work, for example during visits to companies or internships. Your measure complements offers of vocational orientation at school and vocational counselling.
Vocational orientation measures also provide pupils with
- Information on occupational fields,
- help in exploring their interests,
- more clarity about their abilities (through tests and testing procedures),
- strategies for career choice and decision-making,
- better self-assessment by allowing them to reflect on their aptitudes, inclinations and abilities through the interventions,
- strategies for getting where they want to go.
The following elements are excluded as central components of your career orientation measures, but can be a part of them under certain circumstances:
- job application training,
- individual coaching,
- general education and mother-tongue teaching,
- coordination of vocational orientation offers.
The students are accompanied by socio-pedagogical staff.
The measures can be carried out on a modular basis in one block or spread over several dates over one or more school years.
The contracting party is the Employment Agency if it advertises the measure. The Employment Agency can also participate financially in measures run by third parties (by making grants to the third party). The educational service provider is then commissioned, for example, by:
- Land,
- municipality,
- chambers,
- schools and support associations,
- companies,
- in exceptional cases, the sponsor of the measure or an association of sponsors, if this share amounts to at least 25 per cent of the total costs.
You would like to carry out vocational orientation measures for pupils of general education schools. This includes
- Grammar schools,
- regular schools,
- secondary schools,
- secondary schools,
- secondary schools,
- secondary schools,
- comprehensive schools,
- community schools and
- special schools.
General education schools are not:
- Abendgymnasien,
- night schools,
- vocational schools,
- vocational colleges,
- technical colleges,
- evening secondary schools and
- colleges.