“Why Career Orientation in Schools Needs to Evolve: Insights from a Vocational School in Mexico”

Pascal Keller should have become a midwife – at least according to the test results of the job information center of the Employment Agency. Then he decided on one Dual bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus on industry at an automotive supplier. “I thought I had to become like my uncles: suits, cars, money and so on,” he says in retrospect.

But in the middle of his studies, Keller realized that he wasn’t interested in cars at all. After he graduates, she goes Search for meaning at a vocational school in Mexico further, where Keller talks to young people about their future. He notices that professional orientation can also be realistic and inspiring. “Career orientation is often taught in schools in the 2000s style,” says the 31-year-old. “The way we live and work has changed drastically in the last few decades.”