Welcome to The Career Guidance Quality Lab

The career Guidance Quality Lab is a digital workspace developed by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills to support career guidance professionals in improving their practice. Based on Norway’s National Quality Framework for Career Guidance, the Lab offers tools, reflection exercises, and resources that help practitioners work systematically with quality – without formal qualification requirements. The Quality Lab was originally developed as a professional learning resource for career guidance practitioners in Norway.

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Tools

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My Competence

Evaluate your competence and plan your professional development. The tool has been translated from Norwegian to English for an international audience, and the translation has been approved by the Norwegian Directorate of Higher Education and Skills.

Ethical reflection

Reflect on ethical challenges together with colleagues. The tool is in Norwegian, but you can use Google translate. Please note that the tramslation is not approved by the Norwegian Directorate of Higher Education and Skills.

Your career learning

Get inspiration on how to promote career learning in your own guidance. The tool is in Norwegian, but you can use Google translate. Please note that the tramslation is not approved by the Norwegian Directorate of Higher Education and Skills.

The Guidance Room

The Guidance Room is a professional learning resource developed in Norway to support career guidance practitioners in their continuous competence development.

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Practical example: Using the Norwegian Quality Framework in an International Partnership

Discover how career professionals in the Netherlands and Denmark are bringing the Norwegian career buttons to life—using them to spark creativity, deepen guidance practice, and redefine career learning across borders.

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Would you like to explore the Norwegian Quality Lab?

If you understand Norwegian you can exlpore the original version of the Quality Lab with lots of more resources.

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The guidance room

Competence standards

The Guidance Room Max

Max is a researcher with a high level of education and a well-established career. This case illustrates how guidance practitioners can support individuals i...