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Z:Kariera Career guidance portal of the Zlín region
The new Zlín region portal www.zkariera.cz helps students to choose a suitable occupation.
This website allows ninth-graders students and secondary school graduates
to test their skills and abilities free of charge.
The result of the test and an interview with a trained counselor
will help them select the right education or job.
Helena Slováková - educational counselor, teacher at Vsetín-Ohrada Elementary School
When this project has appeared we happily took part,
because anything that helps children to decide which secondary school to choose is definitely welcome.
Natálie Tomaštíková from Vsetín goes to ninth grade and she is 15 years old,
and is one of thousands of students who haven't decided on their future occupation yet.
The new color test could help her choose the Secondary school.
Natálie Tomaštíková - 9th grade student of Vsetín-Ohrada Elementary School
The test was really simple because you can do it on the computer.
All I had to do was pick colors and I had fun doing it.
The result suggested I pursue art and I started thinking about it,
because it actually makes sense.
Kristýna Zadrobílková - 9th grade student of Vsetín-Ohrada Elementary School
It made me think of selecting a different field.
I wanted to study pedagogy, but now I'm not sure;
maybe the Grammar school would be the best choice.
The computer made the test easy and all you need is an introductory explanation,
then you can work on your own
because you choose colors by the influence they have on you.
I think it is well made and user-friendly.
The test is free of charge
and the school also offers the services of an experienced educational counselor.
The student gets a special code and can complete the test.
Then he/she fills in his/her e-mail address and receives the result there.
Josef Slovák - Zlín region councilor for education
The pupil or the student of the elementary school enters his/her personal qualities in the portal
that will be created from this project,
and then visits an expert who explains
what the results of the test suggest for the student's future career.
The student can look at the results at home with his/her parents and then have additional counseling.
He/she can also keep the results to himself/herself.
Even kindergarten children or adults can try the test; it will point out their personality traits and abilities.
Jiøí Šimonek - author of the student-testing method
The evaluation system is new, the method for gaining results is also new
and it is based on the fact that we all have four areas of our lives, which are important.
We each have a body, we each have some emotions,
we each have reason and we all have relationships.
The system is created so that all these opinions and attitudes, that children have,
whether they concern their future profession, their school, their teachers,
they can translate these into certain models using the color-word technique.
This is evaluated; how much of a certain system is included
and what exactly these opinions contain for the work of educational counselors or entire schools.
They are expressed as a whole.
As the author of the test says, each questionnaire has a rational component.
This technique is "blind", which is why the result is a realistic evaluation.
In order that the students be given the best information possible,
teachers have to undergo training.
Vìra Facová - lecturer Valašské Meziøíèí
The student and the counselor can have individual or group consultations.
The career counselor should be able to direct the pupil or the student
and help find his/her way through the various educational offers.
The project is financed by the European Union
and directly from the sources allotted by the Ministry of Education.
The Zlín Region was successful; we got our finances from other individual projects,
which is a different source than is announced in the Zlín Region.
As soon as students find out there is an internet portal,
where they can verify things about themselves on their own and it is graphically interesting,
they will definitely be interested.
It is an intimate matter for the student, his/her family
and the educational counselor who will be helping him/her.
The Zlín Region was the first in the Czech Republic to introduce a new student testing.
Training of pedagogues focusing on career counseling.
CZ.1.07/1.3.00/08.0150
Implementation period: 1st September 2009 - 30th August 2012
This project is co-financed by the European Social Fund and the Czech Republic state budget.
Produced by DM Studio 2010.