Effective Career Guidance - Career Guide

Playing the residence constructor

activity description:

This is a supplementary activity based on discovering various professions and finally match-
ing pupils’ characteristics with the professions’ ones. The aim is to provide an alternative,
innovative, open-ended web-based scenario supporting ICT-enabled career guidance and
counselling for students. It can be the main annual project in the framework of the course of
career guidance in school curriculum. It is also a cross-cultural activity borrowing learning
paths from physics, arts and career guidance. Mainly, in the course of career guidance, it
belongs both to the chapter-thematic area about labour market and its conditions and to the
chapter-thematic area about professional skills and their development. Teacher who imple-
ments the specific scenario in classroom possess a manual which describes at length the
whole procedure.

Target group:

● Pupils 15 to 17 years old

● Counsellors

● Teachers

Pedagogical aims:

● To achieve Europe’s aim for an increased number of young people from all backgrounds
entering careers in science and technology, it is necessary to make scientific, research
and technological careers more visible, better understandable, and more attractive to
students.

● To combat stereotypical images of professions and to broaden the narrow images of
them as usually portrayed through the popular media.
● To make the students think about the skills they will require in work and how
these can be developed at school and university.
● To motivate them to understand that all professions have specific characteristics
and the safer way to choose a profession is firstly to realize and understand
them.
● To motivate them to match their personal characteristics with the professions’
ones.