Use digital career-planning tools with clients
The Finnish Career Planning Skills Development Package brings together self-assessment, reflection and practice tools for building career management skills. The resources can be used with clients or as examples when developing locally relevant digital guidance activities.
A collection of resources for developing career-planning skills, with links to materials for both clients and guidance practitioners.
Useful for: exploring a structured set of career-management tools and selecting activities that fit the client’s needs.
Note: The source page includes a translation option for viewing the material in English or another language.
Support material for counsellors with tools for career planning and guidance work.
Useful for: finding practical material that can be used or adapted in guidance sessions.
A self-assessment tool that helps users identify strengths and development areas in their career skills.
Useful for: starting reflection on career-management skills and identifying areas to work on next.
A workbook combining self-assessment with practice tasks. Users assess their career-planning skills, identify important development areas and then select exercises matched to their responses and skill level.
Useful for: turning self-assessment into concrete practice and supporting a structured development process.
A digital service for identifying skills and interests and exploring options that may be suitable for the user.
Useful for: supporting skills identification and opening discussion about education, work and other possible next steps.
A practitioner section that compiles information, methods and materials to strengthen competence in Career Guidance work.
Useful for: professional development and finding material to support client work.
A digital learning environment for developing competence, future skills and working-life skills. The source material highlights exercises on wellbeing, digital skills, working life, education pathways and entrepreneurship.
Useful for: using structured exercises to support broader competence identity and future-oriented reflection.
Develop guidance for young people and educational institutions
Career Guidance for young people requires coherent practice across teaching, specialist guidance, leadership and institutional cooperation. These resources provide frameworks and system examples for developing guidance in educational settings.
A service document for careers professionals that supports the shaping and implementation of career education and guidance policy in educational institutions. It sets out expected roles and expertise for teachers or coaches, specialist guidance counsellors, and coordinators or policymakers across four areas: vision and policy, education and guidance, organisation, and cooperation.
Useful for: institutional self-reflection, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and strengthening the quality of guidance for young people.
A national policy overview of Career Guidance and counselling services in the Netherlands, provided through the European Commission’s Youth Wiki
Useful for: examining how guidance is organised in another national context and comparing arrangements with local practice.