Effective Career Guidance - Career Guide

2.4 Germany

2.4.1 Career guidance at schools
Schools are also responsible for career guidance in the educational system. Elements of
career guidance have become part of the curriculum. Schools offer measures of career ori-
entation in the form of apprenticeship trainings e.g. factory tours and internships. Connec-
tions to the job environment guarantee a nationwide established network of ca. 450 part-
nerships within schools and companies. The network http://www.schule-wirtschaft.de is based on
local initiatives and is supporting professional practical training programs as well as a range
of other activities as follows:

● Initiation and creation of dialogs and cooperation between schools and the

economic system

● Offers the opportunity to both teachers and students to receive knowledge about

the work and the economic environment

● Supports the economic educations

Additionally and especially for schools the networks provides the partnership of companies,
vocational orientation, business games, competitions and further trainings. These kind of
partnerships between school and economic are being supported nationwide by a five year
running program called “Schule-/Wirtschaft/Arbeitsleben financed by the “Bundesministe-
rium für Bildung und Forschung” (BMBF) a public institution of the Federal Republic of Ger-
many. Furthermore, there are numerous of similar programs e.g.:

● “Transjob” – a program of the “Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft“ (SDW) http://www.

sdw.org

● „Workshop Zukunft – a program of the „Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes“

(DGB) http://www.lernwelt.workshop-zukunft.de

2.4.1.1 Measures of the Federal Employment Agency (BA)
General agreements about the cooperation of schools and career guidance

● agreement about job orientation at schools

● agreement about media cooperation

● agreement about coeducation of teacher and vocational counsellor

2.4.2 University course guidance

● career guidance for high school graduates in cooperation with members of the

university: bundling competences of study and the academic labour market