Since career counselling has been provided at the Employment Service of Slovenia for a number of years, relations and cooperation with other institutions are well established.

Together with primary schools, we mostly provide career guidance programmes, in order to help students in making better career decisions. In this programme we systematically collect data for the whole generations, data on individuals' abilities, interests and wishes, data on state of health and learning success in school. During the process, experts form various institutions and fields are involved. The systematic data greatly helps counsellors in individual sessions and also help save time. Only with extensive information and knowledge on an individual and knowledge of education system and labour market can career guidance be professional and of high quality. In my opinion, career guidance programme with primary schools could be set as an example of good practice.

The programme of career guidance includes:

• Information on the world of work, professions and education paths:
  Every student receives a guidebook for developing career and education goals of primary school students. It was written in cooperation with the counsellors at the National Education Institute, the National Institute for Vocational Education and Training and the Employment Service of Slovenia. The guidebook provides information on schools, school subjects, abilities, professions and also information on where students and parents can receive further information. At the Employment Service of Slovenia interest groups are offered presentations of professions, organized in cooperation with external providers. In these presentations secondary schools and employers participate, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of different professions.
• Surveying of students
  The Employment Service of Slovenia prepares a questionnaire on career path, which is then used by school counsellors.
• Testing of intellectual abilities
  Employment service, primary school and company Kadis d.o.o. participate in this testing.
• Individual counselling
  It is provided at primary schools, Employment Service of Slovenia offices and The Resource Centres for Vocational Guidance (RCVG).
• Team conferences
  They are organized for schoolchildren that are going from primary to secondary school. These are the meetings of school counselling services, class teachers, career counsellors at the ESS and sometimes school doctors. In team conferences, the experts, on the basis of all information, identify students with problems and those that stand out intellectually. Usually a part of counselling is provided in school and part also at the Employment service or RCVGs. Among those most intellectually talented, the candidates that the school will recommend for Zois scholarship are identified as well as individuals that must be encouraged by the school to achieve the goals that match their potential.

Career counsellors at the Employment Service of Slovenia also cooperate with counsellors in secondary schools. We cooperate in guiding students in their decision about university programmes and those who are experiencing problems during their secondary education (drop-outs). Vocational counsellors receive most of information from school counsellors.
There is a lack of cooperation between the higher education and university institutions and the Employment Service of Slovenia. We are aware of high drop-out rates and it is these candidates that require quality guidance, especially because they have chosen a wrong study programme.

Information meetings are held yearly, where news of secondary education, enrolment procedures, possible ways of finishing education, transitions, etc. are explained. These are organized for counsellors in various institutions.

Also the Application-Information Office of the University of Ljubljana and of the University of Maribor organise meetings for counsellors in various institutions. They present news on education system, the application procedures, transition patways, etc.