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DiagOriente: a digital tool to help young people find their way

Published on 19 June 2019
Update on 26 September 2022
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"Every year, more than 80,000 young people leave the school system without a diploma or a plan other than to enter the workforce. Accompanied by the local Missions, they enter the Garantie Jeunes scheme with the firm intention of gaining some professional experience (via "internships") while being paid and thus financing their driving license. Most of them have not seen a guidance counsellor at school and only know about a dozen jobs, sometimes very superficially. The Youth Guarantee will allow them to test these few ideas of jobs through internships (one to two weeks of work experience)."In addition to this problem of professional orientation, there is a second difficulty: most young school dropouts want to go back to school. However, if some jobs do not require any qualification, they are often jobs that are not highly regarded, precarious or without opportunities, in which these young people do not manage to stay for long. However, if we listen to what young people say, they say they want to learn "on the job", that they should be given time to prove themselves, but that they should be paid in order to support themselves.

In order for these young people to become active in their own careers, they must be shown that they know how to do things and that they like to do them, and these skills and aspirations must be linked to the fields of work and the job market.

Diagoriente : a state-owned startup   

A state-owned startup has been working for several months on DiagOriente.

According to Pascal ChaumettePascal Chaumette, DiagOriente's product manager, this tool helps young people to identify the skills they have developed or been able to apply "based on the experiences they have had, in a personal or professional context. The skills identified are aggregated into a map. This map is a tool in itself to enable the young person to become aware of his or her potential and gain self-confidence. These are cross-cutting skills, which are listed in the RECTEC reference framework, and not personality traits that would be evaluated. Based on this skills map and discussions with the young person about his or her interests and the activities he or she likes to do, career paths will be suggested (...)Our objective is that as many young people as possible benefit from this free service. The tool is also of interest to other players: it will be used in particular in the context of the Universal National Service, which will soon be tested.

According to Pascal Chaumette, it takes about an hour and a half to complete the various steps, from identifying skills to exploring jobs.

Experimentation in progress

DiagOriente is currently in an experimental phase, with groups of young people supported by the Mission Locale, in Lille, Tourcoing and Douai.

"DiagOriente's prescribers will first of all be those who today do this orientation work in the local Missions: the Garantie Jeunes advisors. In the medium term, once the application and its impact have stabilized in this field, we plan to make all high school students, and even middle school students, in France benefit from it via a prescription made by the main teachers in charge of this delicate issue of orientation.

Under construction, Diagoriente is not yet accessible to the public.

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DiagOriente: a digital tool to help young people find their way

"Every year, more than 80,000 young people leave the school system without a diploma or a plan other than to enter the workforce. Accompanied by the local Missions, they enter the Garantie Jeunes scheme with the firm intention of gaining some professional experience (via "internships") while being paid and thus financing their driving license. Most of them have not seen a guidance counsellor at school and only know about a dozen jobs, sometimes very superficially. The Youth Guarantee will allow them to test these few ideas of jobs through internships (one to two weeks of work experience)."In addition to this problem of professional orientation, there is a second difficulty: most young school dropouts want to go back to school. However, if some jobs do not require any qualification, they are often jobs that are not highly regarded, precarious or without opportunities, in which these young people do not manage to stay for long. However, if we listen to what young people say, they say they want to learn "on the job", that they should be given time to prove themselves, but that they should be paid in order to support themselves.

In order for these young people to become active in their own careers, they must be shown that they know how to do things and that they like to do them, and these skills and aspirations must be linked to the fields of work and the job market.

Diagoriente : a state-owned startup   

A state-owned startup has been working for several months on DiagOriente.

According to Pascal ChaumettePascal Chaumette, DiagOriente's product manager, this tool helps young people to identify the skills they have developed or been able to apply "based on the experiences they have had, in a personal or professional context. The skills identified are aggregated into a map. This map is a tool in itself to enable the young person to become aware of his or her potential and gain self-confidence. These are cross-cutting skills, which are listed in the RECTEC reference framework, and not personality traits that would be evaluated. Based on this skills map and discussions with the young person about his or her interests and the activities he or she likes to do, career paths will be suggested (...)Our objective is that as many young people as possible benefit from this free service. The tool is also of interest to other players: it will be used in particular in the context of the Universal National Service, which will soon be tested.

According to Pascal Chaumette, it takes about an hour and a half to complete the various steps, from identifying skills to exploring jobs.

Experimentation in progress

DiagOriente is currently in an experimental phase, with groups of young people supported by the Mission Locale, in Lille, Tourcoing and Douai.

"DiagOriente's prescribers will first of all be those who today do this orientation work in the local Missions: the Garantie Jeunes advisors. In the medium term, once the application and its impact have stabilized in this field, we plan to make all high school students, and even middle school students, in France benefit from it via a prescription made by the main teachers in charge of this delicate issue of orientation.

Under construction, Diagoriente is not yet accessible to the public.

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Labo Société Numérique

Labo République Française Agence nationale de cohésion des territoires
DiagOriente: a digital tool to help young people find their way