A wide range of innovative approaches have been implemented in the EU member states in the last years to make vocational skills and employment accessible to the all young people. In all European states, the guidance systems evolve, competence profiles for guidance workers are being developed along with quality standards for their qualification. Within this process the traditional roles of all vocational pedagogues have been changing regardless to their individual function in a specific national support system – teacher, trainer, social worker, tutor. All vocationally oriented pedagogical work requires a range of guidance skills – counselling, diagnostics of strengths and weaknesses, information management. This is especially true in the work with young people at risk of social exclusion between school and job. First contact person remains the teacher or trainer. The education and further training does not consider sufficiently the teachers’, trainers’ and other support staff’s need for guidance skills to encounter the individual needs of the young people.The project evaluates the practice of guidance actually provided by the teaching and training staff, and the practice of guidance training for this staff. In a process of needs review and exchange of experience, best practice is extracted, and quality standards are proposed for guidance training to these “informal guidance workers”, which focus on* competences and learning aims* contents: adequate guidance methodologies, procedures, knowledge, networks* didactic and logistic implementation in the education and training systems for different professional groups (teachers, trainers, social workers, psychologists etc.)