Integrated system for the management of the professional guidance process towards local development

Vocational guidance and its direction towards technical careers constitute priorities to contribute to local development from an educational process. The objective of the article is to propose a system that integrates the directors of Junior High Schools and those of companies belonging to Strategic Sectors, from their working systems, for the direction of the process of professional guidance towards technical careers, in the municipality of Trinidad. The result of the diagnosis about the direction of the professional guidance process was based on the theoretical study and the systematization of the daily practices of the directors when establishing alliances between sectors with different social objectives and the skills in the management functions to guide towards technical careers so as to contribute to local development. The educational context in which the diagnosis took place was in five Junior High Schools, in the municipality of Trinidad, in the province of Sancti Spíritus. Theoretical methods such as analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive and empirical methods such as observation, document review, survey and interview were used. In addition, the descriptive statistics method was used to process the data obtained from the application of the diagnostic instruments. The results allowed to identify the strengths and weaknesses that, in the direction of the professional orientation process towards technical careers, were determined by educational and business directors and to design proposals for solutions, based on local development, through the use of the scientific method.