Career guidance
A trial work placement can generally be formed over 20 working days, or 4 weeks. A clear career orientation normally already exists.
The trial work placement should help
- to elaborate a realistic assessment of the trainability and performance for the aspired vocation
- to test typical situations specific for the occupation with different requirements
- to develop target prospects with a view to the chosen vocation and to elaborate alternatives if necessary.
Occasionally a trial work placement is carried out to discover whether a participant is at all able to profit from occupational rehabilitation measures.
At the Euro-BBW the trial placements are arranged mainly within the respective fields of training so that the participants can gain a hands-on experience of daily life as a trainee. During this trial a team composed of collaborators of the departments training, vocational school as well as counselling and support is at the participant’s disposal.
The career orientation generally spans 40 - 60 working days, or two to three months. This program gives the opportunity to try several fields of work, forming the basis on which a clear career decision can be made and a concrete vocational perspective can be developed. The participant undergoes a four week trial placement in each profession; thus being able to test a maximum of three different professions.
The aims of a career orientation are above all:
- to detect existing personal and professional skills in the respective vocational fields
- to clarify which profession complies with the inclinations and abilities of the participant, which profession is aspired
- to test whether stability and autonomy are sufficient for a training in the aspired profession and detect which special support will be necessary at the beginning of training
The career orientation participants are integrated, in a similar way to those on the trial placements, in the trainee groups learning the respective profession. And a team composed of collaborators of the departments training, vocational school as well as counselling and support is also at their disposal.
