Promoting professional development in school-university transition

The article addresses the issue of transition from secondary school to university, presenting the POT project (guidance and mentoring pathway) as a case study and research. The actions of the pathway accompanied the students involved in reflecting on their future employment, in terms of professional dispositions and career prefigurations. One of the tools used was the Professional/Personal Development Plan (PDP). The qualitative analysis of the written content was carried out with the Atlas.ti software and it led to the identification of some elements considered central to the development of critical reflection and self-orientation skills, capable of promoting greater awareness of the necessary steps to be taken for one's professional future.