Career and/or employment office/service within a TVET/HE institution play an important role in ensuring job seekers access employment opportunities. At the same time, they help employers to access a pool of job seekers with requisite skills. They also prepare learners to seek work in the open labour market e.g., by giving tips for interviews, helping to read and edit resumes, and tips for managing job boards.

Students/trainees in TVET/HE institutions can access employment in different ways. Some of these ways include:   

• Internship programmes – (ideally paid) agreements with employers that temporarily train job seekers for careers;  
  

• Apprenticeship programmes – agreements that allow students to learn specific skills or trade on the job;

• Temporary job placement programmes – agreements with employers that temporarily hire job seekers, and give them on-the-job work experience they can add to their resume;  

• Temporary-to-hire job placement programmes – programmes that aim to train job seekers on a temporary contract, with the aim to hire them on a long-term contract once trained;

• Permanent job placement programmes – programmes that intentionally build relationships between employers and TVET / HE institutions, with the goal of hiring graduates, and; 

• Job shadowing / work-based mentorship and sponsorship - mentors and sponsors can come in at any point of a person’s career; from securing a first job to advancement within the workplace. Leonard Cheshire has found evidence of this within their Change 100 programme in the UK and the replication of this project in India.

Whereas career placement can be handled by a TVET/HE institution, in many places there are strong government or third party institutions offering similar services that can be considered for partnership.