OngoingFree participationLimited places2026–2028
Project target: 200 young people and 100 parents.
Implementing organisations
Professional orientation through work-based learning
Not sure what you'll become?
Which is the best profession to choose?
DUEL helps you discover your strengths, develop the skills the labour market needs and test the careers you care about in real working environments.
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Participants
Where do you begin?
Career Orientation
Explore. Engage. Experience.
DUEL's career orientation process accompanies a young person from self-discovery to real professional experience. Our approach combines career orientation, work-based learning and dual-education principles: learning is connected to two environments — the educational setting and the real workplace.
The three stages, step by step
Stage 01
Explore
With a career guidance psychologist you map your interests, strengths and values.
This stage produces the participant's personal career portfolio — the foundation for everything that follows.
Informed Career Choice
Learning badges
Progress you can see
A badge certifies a specific skill or completed learning outcome — never attendance alone. Gamification stays restrained: progress, achievement, discovery.
How progress works
- Learning unit
- Completed task
- Learning badge
- Unlocked opportunity
- Self-reflection
- Portfolio update
Pick a badge to see its criteria, evidence and what it unlocks
Communication
Clear speech and active listening
- Criteria
- Learning unit completion and a practical workshop exercise
- Evidence
- Completed task and mentor feedback
- Unlocks
- Meetings with professionals
DUEL Compass
Your whole journey in one portfolio
The program ends with a compass: a finished career portfolio.
- Where you came from
- What you gathered
- Where you are going
The DUELian timeline
The timeline is a growing personal record: each completed activity adds a dated milestone, badge or evidence card.
- Discovery
- Learning unit
- Learning badge
- Company tour
- Workshop
- Mentoring
- Interview
- Experience
- Next step
Geography
DUEL echoes across Armenia
Ten regions and the capital: DUEL's campaigns and programs have sounded across Armenia. Every region has its own weather, but the question is the same everywhere: who do you want to become?
- Shirak
- Lori
- Tavush
- Aragatsotn
- Kotayk
- Gegharkunik
- Armavir
- Yerevan
- Ararat
- Vayots Dzor
- Syunik
250+
alumni
45+
partners
10+
learning units
10
regions of Armenia
Current project
Your Skills, Your Future
Practical career orientation and work-based learning for young people aged 14–24, with parent engagement. Young people and parents register separately.
DUELians
Real experiences. Informed decisions.
Every DUELian starts with their own question and moves forward through self-discovery, professional contact and practical experience.
Everything starts with a question
“What should I become?” At DUEL nobody answers it for you — you get the tools to find the answer yourself.
It continues with practice
Real mentors, company tours, learning badges. Making mistakes here is part of learning, not a problem.
It ends with an informed choice
By the end of the program you hold a finished career portfolio, your DUELian timeline and a clear plan for the next steps.
Partners
Employers, mentors, institutions
Partner organisations host tours, provide mentors from their best specialists and open the world of work to participants.
Clear terms
Free programs and paid consulting
These are two different paths. Cohort programs are grant-funded and free for selected participants; individual consulting is a paid service outside an open cohort.
Free participation
Free cohort programs
- Funded, cohort-based participation
- Free of charge for selected participants
- Application, eligibility and limited places
- Learning units, badges, workshops, company tours, mentoring and work-based learning
Paid individual service
Individual consulting
- Personal service outside an open cohort
- Paid by the individual or family
- Appointment-based, subject to specialist availability
- Self-discovery, a session with a career guidance psychologist, a direction map, a portfolio and an action plan
News
Practical resources for your next step
What skills do you need for your first job?
Communication, collaboration, problem solving, self-organisation and professional readiness — explained simply.
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How to support your teenager through career choice
Practical advice for parents: how to stand beside your child without making the choice for them.
Read more
How do you know which profession fits you?
The steps of self-discovery — from interests and strengths to a direction you have tested and confirmed.
Read more
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Your next step can start today
Apply to the program if you are 14–24, or partner with DUEL if you want to stand beside young people on that road.