With a career guidance measure, you as a measure provider or educational service provider give pupils an in-depth insight into the world of work and careers and provide them with more clarity when choosing their training or course of study. For example, you provide them with practical impressions of the world of work during company visits or internships. Their measures complement school careers guidance and careers advice services.

Careers guidance measures also provide pupils with

• Information on occupational fields,
• help them to explore their interests,
• more clarity about their abilities (through tests and examination procedures),
• strategies for career choice and decision-making,
• better self-assessment by being able to reflect on their aptitude, inclinations and abilities through the measures,
• Strategies to reach their goal,

The following elements are excluded as central components of your career guidance measures, but can be part of them under certain circumstances:

• Job application training,
• individual coaching,
• general education and native language lessons,
• Coordination of career guidance offers.

Pupils receive socio-educational support.

The measures can be carried out modularly in one block or spread over several dates over one or more school years.

The contractual partner is the employment agency if it puts the measure out to tender. The employment agency can also participate financially in third-party measures (through grants to the third party). The training service provider is then commissioned by, for example

• State,
• Municipality,
• chambers,
• schools and support associations,
• companies,
• in exceptional cases, the sponsor or association of sponsors if this share amounts to at least 25 percent of the total costs.

You would like to carry out vocational orientation measures for pupils at general education schools. This includes

• Grammar schools,
• mainstream schools,
• secondary schools,
• secondary schools,
• Realschulen,
• Hauptschulen,
• comprehensive schools,
• community schools and
• special schools.

The following are not general education schools:

• Evening grammar schools,
• evening secondary schools,
• vocational schools,
• vocational colleges,
• technical colleges,
• evening secondary schools and
• colleges.