8/18/2019 Cape_io2_focus Group
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Careers Advice and Pathways to Employment - CAPE Project
IO2 Needs Analysis Report
Agreement number: 2015-1-PL01-KA202-016802
Questions for Focus Group
The focus group has to be carried out face to face-
facilitating discussion in a group of up to 8 young people at
risk of early school leaving.
The goal is to discover youth needs and difficulties in
their professional/learning path, in orderto gather important
information useful for teachers and trainers to implement Career
Adviceand Guidance services.
The questions and keywords below can be adapted according
to the target needs andcharacteristic, in collaboration with the
teacher.
Teachers/trainers or the PM can have the role of
facilitator that carries on the Focus group.Important is that all
persons present are active participating and no one has the role
of“observing” participants attitude.
1.
Discovering together the values related to “work/job” by
brainstorming words related that come up intoparticipants mind and
by gathering them in a big flipchart. For example these could
be:
Independency/Autonomy, Money, Be active part of Society,
etc…
2. Do you know what you want to do after finishing the
school?
If not, why you don’t know?
Which is the subject that you like?
3. Which are the difficulties you think you could
face in getting a job?
- Which of them depend on you?
- Which of them depend on external factors?
4. Do you have support in career guidance in your
school/institution?
- If yes- do you receive any benefit from it? How? Can you
describe it?
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If not- would you like to have that support? In which way?
Please invite the participants in a closing session in which
they can evaluate informally the focus group.
