Assess the current status in your school

To improve the career guidance services in your school, it is important to first assess with your colleagues the current career guidance approaches, services and activities and identify gaps or areas for improvement.

With this you can learn about the different levels of service development (basic, intermediate and), jointly analyse the current situation and describe both a recent innovative practice, possible gaps and areas for improvement.

This will allow you to reflect on the effectiveness and relevance of your career guidance services for the institution and students.

What services do young people need?

UNICEF and European Training Foundation – Learning for Careers

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the European Training Foundation (ETF) joined jointly explored young people’s needs, sentiments, and experiences with career guidance and counselling. This research gives young people form the Europe and Central Asia region a voice and provides insights in their needs in career guidance activities and services in various stages of education. The report presents several ways forward for policymakers, career guidance providers, practitioners, parents/guardians, and the young people themselves.

EU resources and toolkits

Use these publications to examine the professional roles, competences and development needs of Career Guidance practitioners, and

Explore various EU practices

Here below you can find some EU examples of practices and tools related to career guidance services, including:

Useful advice from OECD Career Readiness project

The OECD Career Readiness project provides new advice to governments, schools, employers and other stakeholders on how to best prepare young people to visualise, plan and prepare for their working lives. You can find working papers with advice on how career guidance can be used strategically to address social inequalities, enable progression towards high priority occupational areas such as green jobs and develop student motivation and success.

This website also refers you to the