“Your calling is the shield of your destiny, a shelter for your future forever”

Recently, many digital and other technical and even methodological tools have been developed in Hungary, but local creativity and activity are also needed. To this end, the Székesfehérvár Vocational Training Centre has created an awareness-raising tool. The Shield of Professions is a twice than life-size wooden masterpiece, 150 cm in diameter, partly covered in leather. It displays the symbols of the sectors taught in the Centre’s schools. A modern version of the Shield of Achilles. It can be set up anywhere on a portable stand. On the laptop next to it, a collection of links that can be opened by clicking on the “Shield” icon makes the “Information booklet on basic professions”, all central career guidance materials and the Centre’s own career orientation and guidance platforms accessible without any searching. There is a separate icon to log on to the karrierkapu.hu service, which is a client system through which all Székesfehérvár-based organisations providing career guidance can be accessed. The Shield of Professions offers and mediates career awareness and additional career guidance services. Moving from school to school, it provides continuous information, even without being permanently present, using the tool freely. It is set up in the community spaces of schools. It usually arrives in the host school for an event, and teachers and students are shown how to use it independently. Schools can then organise sessions using the tool, or students and parents can use it themselves. The target group includes all school users, primary and secondary school students, but it is also useful for parents, teachers, trainers and heads of institutions. The shield, as the central element of an interactive travelling exhibition that takes up a small space, is a great attention grabber and generates dialogue on the topic among teachers and students. This design is unique, but the idea can be implemented and applied with less technical effort and cost.