BERUFE ENTDECKER

This platform was launched by the Federal Employment Agency in 2015 with the aim of presenting various professions and vocational educational pathways. The tool allows users to both find information and create a checklist of their own preferences. It can be combined with an online tool to assess interests and competences within the context of selected professions.

The tool gives an overview of the different ways to choose a profession and is mainly targeted at young people who have completed secondary school. Approximately 500 professional paths are presented. Information on the professions is attractively presented, with a lot of pictures, videos, interviews, case studies (of people working in different areas). However, there is a lack of interactive activities.

The assessment tool includes various steps. In the first, you can select your current situation in regards to careers; 1. You know what your dream job is, 2. You have no idea what to do, 3. You know what field you would like to work in. Users are then presented with hundreds of pictures related to different professional fields and have to select those which are attractive to them. On the basis of which pictures are selected, a list of potential jobs is generated. Users can then move on to explore the tasks that are related to these sectors, understand the education requirements, and to watch interviews with experts and those already working in the field. After selecting a specific profession, users can use an online tool to assess the extent to which their own interests and competences fit with the selected profession. https://set.arbeitsagentur.de/teaser.

The platform is accessible (in German) on a PC for free, as well as via an app for smartphone and tablet, which can be downloaded at Google Play and the App Store. It is compatible with HTML5 and Javascript.

According to the website’s usage data, the platform receives approximately 3.7 million users and around 32 million page views every year.