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Kind of good practice
Orientation/Guidance Day
Target group
Pupils in career orientation process
Description
Each year on a certain day as many companies as possible are
invited to the school NMS Webling to present their companies
and to talk to the pupils at a career-orientation fair. So in this protected setting students have the chance
to get in contact with different companies and maybe, also their future employer.
Therefore different organisational planning and settings need to be done by a staff member of the school:
• Set a date.
• Send invitations to different businesses form the region and also other schools (keep the contact on
a list for following years and the next career fairy!).
• Try to get in contact with the businesses and schools personally for instants at other network events
or meetings.
• Call all invited businesses and schools.
• Prepare the right place within your school and adapt it according to the needs of the companies
and schools.
• Prepare your students: give them information in advance; let them find some interesting questions;
tell them about the organisation and agenda of the day.
• And after the career fair: reflect the experiences and give extra information if needed.
The annual career guidance fair primarily supports the students in their decision making.
It is designed to give value to all partners: companies, students and the school itself. Students have already
found through this career information fair trial courts as well as apprenticeships.
The experience with the professional orientation fair is for the school and the businesses as well as for the
secondary schools very positive.
Career – orientation Fair
Aims
• To support pupils to find the
right apprenticeship.
• To show pupils possibilities and
different career pathways.
• To foster communication
between pupils and enterprises
and other schools.
Do´s
• Prepare students for the event.
• Contact
companies
and
schools
personally.
• Invite as many different companies as
possible, it doesn’t matter if they are
hiring at the moment or not, to show
students different options.
Don´ts
• Passive behaviour: companies and
schools do not come without a proper
invitation.
• Skip the follow up after the fair
• Take the acquisition of enterprises in the
following year for granted.
Further Information
NMS Webling |
| Graz, Austria
