Different counselors, many options: Career guidance and career plans in secondary schools

Abstract

Career guidance assists students with the school-to-work transition. Based on a survey conducted in secondary schools in Germany, we analyze career guidance activities and how these affect career plans. The take-up of career guidance depends upon the school track attended, and the school and the class setting, while personal characteristics are barely relevant. The effects of counseling depend upon the type of counseling provider. Counseling by the employment agency reduces plans for educational upgrading and increases the probability of applying for an apprenticeship, while the effects of counseling by school counselors works in the opposite direction for lower track students. © 2020 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Author Keywords

School-to-work transition career guidance career planning secondary school educational aspirations Counseling

Index Keywords

Employment educational development student academic performance Germany educational attainment labor supply secondary education guideline

Author Affiliations

Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Nurnberg, Bayern, Germany

Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH, Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Nurnberg, Bayern, Germany

Funding & Acknowledgements

Baden-Württemberg Stiftung

Funding text 1: We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung for the research project "Übergänge am Ende der Sekundarstufe I in weiterführende Schulen und die berufliche Bildung" as part of the program "Netzwerk Bildungsforschung (Network Educational Research)". We thank Holger Bonin and the researchers in the Netzwerk Bildungsforschung for very helpful comments. We are grateful to many school representatives in the cities of Freiburg and Mannheim for their support in undertaking the school survey, which provides the data for our analysis. All errors are our sole responsibility.; Funding text 2: ?cknowledgment: We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung for the research project “Übergänge am Ende der Sekun-darstufe I in weiterführende Schulen und die berufliche Bildung” as part of the program “Netzwerk Bildungsforschung (Network Educational Research)”. We thank Holger Bonin and the researchers in the Netzwerk Bildungsforschung for very helpful comments. We are grateful to many school representatives in the cities of Freiburg and Mannheim for their support in undertaking the school survey, which provides the data for our analysis. ?ll errors are our sole responsibility.

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Different counselors, many options: Career guidance and career plans in secondary schools

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