draws attention to the potential of employees with disabilities (e.g. websites, social media channels, presentations).

helps your learners to create alternative / more competitive presentations of their profile, skills and competences (e.g. video CVs).

matches occupation-specific descriptors with learners’ skills to find companies suitable for trainings or permanent placements.

matches requirements of job vacancies with learners’ skills.

uses your educational programmes and certificates as filters to search specific databases¹⁾, to find matching local or regional companies that are of potential interest for your learners’ future employment paths.

accesses and searches specific databases¹⁾ with companies and their respective employment, training or apprenticeship opportunities.

identifies online presences²⁾ of companies that particularly address people with disabilities (e.g. corporate missions that indicate the company’s openness for hiring people with disabilities, contact information for applicants with disabilities).

qualifies companies (found during the previous steps) according to the phases of education and training in which they could be a useful partner (e.g. initial orientation, practical training / internship, know-how-exchange, transition).

qualifies companies (found during the previous steps) according to their accessibility by public transportation.

supports you to review periodically your own web presence, to which extent it provides sufficient information, to company’s / labour market representatives, about the skills and potentials of your graduates.

supports you to review periodically your own web presence, to which extent it provides detailed information on opportunities to companies participating in training and educational activities.

supports you to review periodically your own web presence, to which extent it provides information on the benefits of hiring graduates with disabilities.

supports you in placing learners for days or weeks in new companies so that they can gain practical experiences and help to establish a link to the respective company.

supports you in running an own Practice Enterprise³⁾ that interacts with real companies.

allows access to relevant company or job vacancy databases for searching and filtering.

performs an automatic match between learners’ abilities / skills and job requirements.

documents each company’s history with your organisation to follow-up and co-ordinate activities by anybody within your organisation. In particular, does it contain …

• a history of joint activities (e.g. training phases, apprenticeships, transitions)
• contact persons and their respective details
• a history of previous contacts (e.g., who contacted whom by when and by which means, and main content of the exchange)
• a broad classification of the companies as partners (e.g. for single, multiple or strategic use)

establishes a kind of hotline between the company and the VET supervisor during practical phases of learners in this company, also outside visiting hours (e.g. phone, video, chat / messenger).

allows for a shared documentation of the learner’s progress throughout the practice phase between the VET organisation and company, which contributes to increased transparency and collaboration.

maintains contact between the learner and the supervisor during practical phases, to minimise the need for on-site visits which always take extra efforts and costs (esp. travel time & costs, absence from VET organisation during visit).

maintains the required support after successful transition and offers a gradual (individualised) reduction in the intensity of support both for the learner and the company.

allows you to probe continuously the expectations of each cooperating company towards the VET organisation, as these may develop and change while the cooperation evolves.

performs regular, sometimes also anonymous, surveys through which companies’ interests can be explored more in-depth.

supports you to review subscriptions of cooperating companies to interesting topics at your own website or newsletter.

allows you to review your web site statistics with regard to topics of high interest to visitors.

supports you to further develop an initial link from a 1-to-1, initially personal relationship (e.g. teacher or trainer in contact with a company representative) to a link between two organisations.

allows to collect feedback from strategic partners (like innovative companies, chambers etc.), to review and asses the information and to draw the right conclusions to ensure that courses, assessments and certificates are tailored to current and future labour market needs.

facilitates you to follow-up your learners after transition to the labour market and use this information to monitor the long-term impact of your VET programmes and processes.

helps you managing the periodic contacting of cooperating companies (e.g. by setting regular reminders).

allows to set up, run and evaluate online surveys for your company partners to provide feedback on relevant issues.

documents all activities such that team concepts with mutual substitution are efficiently doable. ⁴⁾

limits access to personal data of learners exclusively to the eligible stakeholders inside and outside the VET organisation.

supports the cooperation needs of interdisciplinary teams (e.g. job coaches, career counsellors, mentors etc.) during transition phases (e.g. task scheduling, exchange of learner-specific data, provision of immediate feedback).

is able to discriminate data to particularly see the performance of learners with disabilities and to assess the impact of any educational interventions targeted to them.

provides access to required resources (e.g. online information and services, databases) to all stakeholders permanently throughout the transition and when placed at work.

supports you to follow-up your learners once they left your organisation.