Bring Your Child to Work-Day
Concept Description
“Bring Your Child to Work-Day” (German Acronym: BdKzAmT) offers children aged approximately 9 and 13 (grades 3 and 7) the opportunity to accompany their parents or close relatives or reference persons to the workplace for one day. Companies are encouraged to recognize their employees not only in their professional roles but also as parents – supporting them in giving their children a direct and personal experience of the world of work. This shared experience opens up a family-based dialogue about professions, work, and career paths.
Integration in Career Guidance Processes
This Reality Check provides a low-threshold, personal introduction to exploring career ideas – grounded in the real-life activities of parents or close relatives or reference persons. It is especially suited for early-stage career orientation in primary and lower secondary education and complements formal school-based approaches. The BdKzAmT activity is implemented during the school year as a non-formal measure and enriches the existing curriculum.
CareerCraft: Shape your future
The practical workshop "CareerCraft: Shape your professional future" offers pupils from year eight onwards a hands-on opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of skilled trades. Realistic scenarios and interactive role-playing games give them an insight into the diverse possibilities of skilled trades. The aim is to awaken and promote talent and interest in these essential professions and to provide pupils with the tools for their professional future.
Job-Action
Regular career fair visits are made more sustainable and focussed through an action bundle prepared in advance. The students are given tasks for which they can collect points and, in this way, come into more comprehensive contact and dialogue with companies. The results can also be retrieved for follow-up and analysed together.
Training for skills
Try-on training activity at T2 Vocational College on Campus Skellefteå. Site visit and the opportunity to test various work steps within the industry. (Carpentry/wood and Welding) A career counsellor will work with a short guidance introduction/material focusing on what I want and what motivates me. Students will reflect on interests, wishes and values, expectations and goals for the future world of life and work. The exercise is both theoretical and practical to its approach.
The wheel of professions
The wheel of professions is a game aimed at improving young people’s knowledge of the labour market and of the numerous professions that exist in different working sectors. It is a group and learning-by-doing activity to increase awareness on professional possibilities and personal aspirations.
What happens in a company? Touch it with your own hands!
This Reality Check consists of a hands-on workshop held by a company within the school context, as a curricular or extra-curricular activity. The special feature of this experience is that companies not only come into the school, but also bring in equipment or materials actually used in the workplace and make them available to the students, so that they can experience first-hand what goes on in a local company.
Your first work experience: what to know before?
An educational video of peer-to-peer education. Directly hearing the voice of other young people and of employers, the youngsters watching this video become aware of challenges, obstacles, and situations they might face in their first work experience, as well as strategies to avoid or overcome them.
Internships with purpose
In the 8th grade, the young people are extensively prepared for the upcoming work placement (internship) in the 9th grade. The "TalentCheck", a career choice test and a detailed counseling interview with the parents, are used to work out together where and in which area the young people could complete their work placement in the 9th grade. The careers counsellor names possible employers and sectors and discusses the relevant application procedure with the young people.
Work experience Culture park
Try-on activity at Urkraft Culture park. Site visit and the opportunity to test various work steps within the wood/carpentry industry, mechanics and gardening/park. The Reality check is also an opportunity to reflect on interests, wishes and values, expectations and goals for the future world of life and work. The reality check mixes practical and theoretical information and experience.
Film contest!
Contest! Organizing an activity where classes create short films about different professions can be both educational and fun for students. Have your class compete in making a short film about what it's like to work in a chosen profession. Write a short script, film with your mobile phone in order to showcase a specific profession.