Career Orientation
DU EL'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.
Informed Career Choice
Stage 01
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.
The three stages, step by step
Stage 01
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.
Stage 02
You complete learning units, earn badges and unlock new opportunities — tours, meetings, workshops.
Each successfully completed learning unit earns a badge. Badges show progress in a gamified way and unlock the next opportunities: company tours, exploration of different sectors, meetings with professionals and exposure to corporate culture.
Stage 03
You test your direction in practice — interviews, mentoring, workplace observation and internships.
The stage results in a career direction tested through experience, professional feedback and a plan for the next steps in education, internship or employment.
Informed Career Choice
The Compass is the documented outcome of the three stages, not a fourth learning stage.
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Stage 01
With the support of a career guidance psychologist, the participant maps:
This stage produces the participant's personal career portfolio — the foundation for everything that follows.
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Stage 02
The participant joins the process of building the skills the labour market needs. The stage includes:
Each successfully completed learning unit earns a badge. Badges show progress in a gamified way and unlock the next opportunities: company tours, exploration of different sectors, meetings with professionals and exposure to corporate culture.
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Stage 03
Based on the participant's career portfolio, badges and interests, DU EL organises:
The stage results in a career direction tested through experience, professional feedback and a plan for the next steps in education, internship or employment.
The participant completes the program with a finished career portfolio, a DUELian timeline and a clear plan for the next steps.
The program is delivered by:
We do not choose a profession for a young person. We create the conditions for them to discover, explore and test their own path in practice.
Learning badges
A badge certifies a specific skill or completed learning outcome — never attendance alone. Gamification stays restrained: progress, achievement, discovery.
How progress works
Pick a badge to see its criteria, evidence and what it unlocks
Communication
Clear speech and active listening
DU EL Compass
The DU EL program concludes with the participant's personal compass: a finished career portfolio documenting the whole journey. It shows where they started, what they discovered about themselves, which skills they developed, which careers and companies they explored, what experiences they completed and what comes next.
The DUELian timeline
The timeline is a growing personal record: each completed activity adds a dated milestone, badge or evidence card.
The foundation
The approach rests on work-based learning and dual-education principles — here is what they mean at DU EL.
Learning connects the educational setting with the real workplace: units, workshops, tours, observation, internships.
A career guidance psychologist, strengths mapping and a personal career portfolio.
Mentors and employers help participants understand work and open future pathways.
Transferable and professional skills through exercises, workplace scenario try-outs and real tasks.
From awareness to experience — DU EL simplifies the path into Explore → Engage → Experience.
Briefing before every tour; feedback, evidence and portfolio updates after every activity.
The portfolio determines the most relevant tours, mentors, interviews and internship pathways.
DU EL acts as the intermediary between youth, families, educators and employers.
Cohort programs are free for selected participants.
