The following goals were set: 1. By increasing students' awareness of their personal and professional competences, they are enabled to better plan their professional careers. 2. By promoting self-reflection, students are enabled to present their competences in a cerative format, e.g. in alternative performance records using digital technologies. 3. The transition rate of students into vocational training needs to be increased and the rate of students dropping out of training needs to be reduced. 4. The supply of teachers in the area of vocational orientation needs to be improved. To this end, further training, guidelines and teaching materials should be jointly developed. 5. The resilience of learners and teachers need to be strengthened in order to enable and celebrate learning successes and increase self-confidence and motivation. 6. Teachers and students need to be trained and sensitised to the use of digital tools (e.g. for work planning, research, conducting video conferences, presentations) in their content-related work.
Many pupils find it difficult to answer the questions ‘Who am I? What can I do? What do I want?’. To ensure a successful start to vocational training, they need to be aware of their strengths and to be able to clearly communicate and justify their skills. The « Das PerLen-Konzept® » focuses on the young people's abilities. They recognise and learn to show what they can do. The attractiveness of vocational training should become more appealing to both future trainees and employers. The project helps to answer personal questions about the future in a structured, intelligent and self-confident manner and to turn visions into reality. It brings employers and young people together at an equal footing via applicant markets and thus opens up a wide range of opportunities and perspectives in the planning of vocational training. There is a clear focus on the need in schools and also amongst companies in Germany and other EU countries for targeted planning of career entry and thus, in the best case scenario, securing skilled labour and reducing the drop-out rate through a high level of professional satisfaction.