What are the services I can access?
Vocational orientation needs strong parents!
This site is designed to give you guidance on how to walk this path with your child. Various tools and models are used.
The Model of Parental Support for Career Choice
It is based on a scientific model that describes what makes strong parents and guardians effective in career guidance. Depending on where your child is in this process, he or she will need different forms of support.
We distinguish four types of support:
Emotional support
Be wholeheartedly involved!
Instrumental Support
Provide active support!
Factual support
Stay focused!
Needs-Based Support
Focus on your child's interests and goals!
The model is based on extensive surveys of adolescents and parents by the working groups led by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bührmann (Hamburg Medical School), Prof. Dr. Julia Dietrich (Catholic University of Eichstätt) and Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kracke (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).
You can read more about the scientific background of the model in this scientific article.
If you want to know more about yourself, take the self-check!
Information pages for parents and guardians
In addition to this website, there are many other sites on the Internet about vocational orientation that are specifically designed for you as a parent or guardian.
Special information for parents and guardians about standard procedures in vocational orientation can be found on the pages of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research:
https://www.berufsorientierungsprogramm.de/bop/de/programm/informationen-fuer-eltern/informationen-fuer-eltern_node.html.For in-depth information on careers, detailed interest tests and an overview of the vocational orientation process, visit the website of the Federal Employment Agency:
https://planet-beruf.de/eltern-und-erziehungsberechtigte.If your child has already made initial decisions about career aspirations and occupational fields, you can also visit the websites of professional associations, chambers of commerce, and chambers of industry and commerce. Here you will find special information pages and offers for parents and guardians, as well as specific local contacts - all related to the professional field represented by the association. For example, for the Stuttgart area:
If you want to learn more, please also visit the pages of our partner project #parentsonboard: https://www.parentsonboard.de.
Get involved in vocational orientation
A strong VO needs active parents! Would you like to get involved, e.g. as a parent mentor? You can find opportunities on the pages of the Elternstiftung BaWü (https://elternstiftung.de/) or the Landeselternbeirats (https://www.leb-bw.de/)
