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Kind of good practice
Orientation / Guidance project with companies
Target group
Pupils in career orientation process
Description
“Your Job-Use your talent!“ is a project that acts as a linking
pin between currently eight corporate partners – leading
companies of the region - and young people, parents and
schools in Graz. The main topic of the initiative is to support
career orientation and guidance activities and to advise youngsters about careers in industrial partner
companies.
The project Your Job started in the school year 2011/2012 and offers young people specific information
about:
• Apprenticeship in the Your Job companies (different professions, career opportunities).
• How to apply and information about job interviews.
• Companies‘ expectations of new employees and benefits (apprenticeship remuneration, salary,
bonuses, ...).
Therefore the team of Your Job offers counselling sessions in individual and small group settings. Your Job
offers its own support programme not only for pupils but also for young people in their career orientation
process. Also parents are a major target group. They can ask for support and information to accompany
the career choice process of their children in a proper way. Parents get bundled information about career
paths, procedures, criteria and expectations of the partner companies. Your Job encourages to contact the
instructors of partner companies and their human resources managers (i.e. parents‘ evenings) and allows
parents to participate in factory tours and to attend counselling sessions with the young people.
For schools and teachers the initiative „Your Job -Use your talent!“ offers next to information, personal
networkingwith instructors of partner companies and personnel managers. They also support coordination
and organisation of exciting interactions between schools and companies, like company visits for school
classes, teachers and parents. Two major events are the “Action Day” a special day for pupils (and their
parents) where they can visit a partner company and experience the working-areas by doing. And the
“Navigation Day” where pupils can check their skills and competences necessary for a career in the Styrian
industry by solving different exercises and tests. „Your Job -Use your talent!“ is created and funded by
eight Styrian industrial companies which work together to find new approaches in working with schools
and education.
Your Job
Aims
• To link between school and
companies.
• To support career choices of
young people with specific
information about partner
companies and jobs in industry.
• To find new approaches in
working with companies,
schools, pupils and parents.
Do´s
• Partner meetings with companies on
regular basis.
• Individual support and “be all ears” for
every stakeholder: school / teacher /
pupil / parent and partner companies.
• Follow up of all activities.
Don´ts
• To take the flow of information for
granted.
• To forget about the involvement of
parents.
• To neglect the interests and strengths of
the children.
Further Information
Your Job |
| Graz, Austria
