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LÁSZLÓ QUITT, The Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry
With and Without Tools
The Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BKIK) is a leading
organization in the coordination of actors in the Vocational Education and
Training sector.
According to our experience, the capital’s economic actors are struggling with
a serious lack of professionals, especially in the so-called ‘shortage occupations’.
The program, therefore, tries to off er an attractive career model to indecisive

group of primary school students and graduating secondary school students
before making a career choice. Its key elements are self-awareness and
occupational orientation, with approaches, methods and contents adjusted
to their respective age group.
In the course of its career guidance mission, the Budapest Chamber of
Commerce and Industry employs a number of traditional and innovative
methods to address young people as its primary target group. Events,
workshops and training workshop visits actively involve children by creating
a truly unique experience.
Our fundamental experience is that children of today, being active in the
digital world, receive lots of information, but only visually. Thus, they are left

out of real, hands-on experiences that are key to their tactile senses. In the
absence of these, however, no ‘real’ experience can be gained.
The fact and the matter is that there are almost no trades, occupations or
professions that would not use some kind of measurement. This means that we
use measuring instruments in every professional activity. From here came the
idea of making the trades tangible through the measuring instruments that
they require. This is the reason why we have compiled a so-called ‘MEASURING
BAG’ to play the following game:
Trade knowledge game
Tools: ‘MEASURING BAG’, notepad, writing instrument. mechanical scale
measuring rod
The contents of the measuring bag (which can be expanded at any time) caliper measuring cup with container
measuring tape
digital kitchen scales
water level meter
medical syringe
taylor’s tape
room thermometer
blood pressure meter
digital multimeter
4-in-1 occupational health and safety measuring
device (light meter, sound pressure meter, core analogue and digital light meter
thermometer, humidity meter)
Duration: approx. 25 minutes
(this should be fl exible depending on the options and needs)

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