Online tools in career guidance - The PÁVA application

The "PÁVA" PÁlyaVálasztásiApplikáció (career choice app) is a free application downloadable to smart devices, developed by the Career Guidance Working Group of the Heves County Pedagogical Services. The app is a unique online career guidance tool in Hungary.

It was the winner of the Euroguidance for Youth Award in Hungary in 2024. 

PÁVA can be used both as a guest user and a registered user. After downloading the app, users can try out different free-to-access career orientation games (hangman, grouping, puzzle, mirror text) under the Guest Room menu, or may use the School Finder where primary school pupils can access a list of educational institutions that are entered in the Hungarian Educational Authority’s public education information system (KIR). There is a range of online games to suit both primary and secondary school age-groups. The games seek to increase career awareness and to provide information on further education (fields of study, types of secondary schools, admission to higher education institutions) to the target groups.

Users can access the function that supports career guidance activities within the app after entering an educational identifier and a generated token number sequence. On this internal interface, logged-in users can fill in self-awareness questionnaires. Once a questionnaire has been completed, the results are displayed immediately, and are then analysed and discussed with the students with the help of a guidance professional. The application collects the responses in a CSV file, which is an important element of storing completed questionnaires.

Experts developed the PÁVA app with the intention of providing free content that is accessible to anyone. The main purpose of developing the logged-in user function is to facilitate the use of self-awareness and learning methodology questionnaires in an efficient and smooth way.

The app is still under development and is currently available for Android.