How to tag Career Guidance Centres?

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Hi,

the french community is looking for the best way to tag what we call CIO (Centre d’information et d’orientation). [Éducation] Les CIO - Projets de contribution - Forum OSM France

It is a governement service where school pupils and students (age from 13 to 20ish) can get counselling and guidance for their future jobs and what school curriculum is available to best reach it.
It seems similar to these services in the UK and Scottland: About us | National Careers Service / Careers centres - Skills Development Scotland

Detailed description

The role of Career Guidance Centres

This consists of promoting:

  • access for all members of the public, with priority given to young people in education and their families
  • information on studies, vocational training, qualifications and professions
  • individual counselling
  • observation and analysis of local changes in the education system and developments in the labour market, and the production of summary documents for educational teams or students
  • the facilitation of exchanges and discussions between partners in the education system, parents, young people, local decision-makers and economic leaders.

CIOs are also fully involved in implementing compulsory education for 16-18 year olds, alongside local missions. They support young people, whether they have dropped out of school or not, in their integration into society, whether through employment, qualification or a return to school.

Each CIO has:

  • a collection of documents on education and professions
  • a self-documentation service allowing anyone visiting the CIO to consult documents based on their interests and academic level

Source : https://www.ac-lyon.fr/les-services-d-orientation-de-l-academie-de-lyon-122050
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Some of them are already mapped with office = government or amenity = social_facility + social_facility=outreach + social_facility:for=juvenile,

but we have more of a consensus toward office = educational_institution and/or a new value education=guidance_counselling.

Is the latest idiomatic?
We would welcome any approval/disaproval/suggestion.

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I’m not sure if this is going to be helpful or just confuse things more, but there’s something where I live in Massachusetts that sounds kind of similar. It’s not quite as targeted at younger people as what you’re describing, but is government sponsored and offers help with getting career training and ways to find jobs in general.

https://www.mass.gov/how-to/find-a-masshire-career-center

It looks like a few of them are tagged as office=employment_agency but I don’t think that’s really the best fit. Maybe some sort of education= tag would fit?

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I guess in France we have France Travail that maybe could be considered the equivalent to that if it’s indeed not aimed at younger people?

Or maybe I misunderstand what your places are like. Is it aimed (mostly) to the unemployed?

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Yes, the places in Massachusetts that I know of are targeted mostly at the unemployed. Maybe it’s different enough of a thing that I shouldn’t have brought it up to confuse things.

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I think it is quite different, as the CIO don’t have job offers. It is only information.
So I don’t think that employment_agency could do the job for CIO.

but I think that what you discribe could benefit from a key to explain that it is not only an employement agency, but also a place where guidance is provided.
In France for the “France Travail” we use office=government+government=employment_agency see wiki rather than office=employment_agency

I looked quickly how the Careers centres - Skills Development Scotland are mapped and it is also quite a mess, with office=yes, office=government, office=ngo, office=employment_agency,…

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