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Vocational Training is adapting to the changes taking place in the information society. The successive education reforms have tried to improve the quality of students’ education and teachers’ teaching. The aims of this article are: a) to analyze the level of the students’ academic and professional information in order to make decisions in Intermediate and Advanced Vocational Training; b) to know the academic and professional expectations of the students; c) to analyze the personal, academic and professional aims prioritized by the students in their life design; d) to exam if there are differences in the life design and the decision making of the students according to sex and level of Vocational Training. Two hundred and fifty-one students in Intermediate and Advanced Vocational Training at four secondary school centres in Tenerife participated in this study. An adaptation of the Academic and Professional Guidance Questionnaire, designed by the Research Group in Educational and Vocational Guidance of the University of La Laguna, has been used in the research. The results show: 1) a significant association between sex and Vocational Training speciality, between decision making and Vocational Training level, and between employment expectations and Vocational Training level; 2) significant differences among the students’ information for decision making and among their life goals according to Vocational Training level. It is necessary to strengthen and to restructure the Guidance Department to address the vocational guidance of Vocational Training students. La Formación Profesional se encuentra en un periodo de adaptación a las numerosas transformaciones de la sociedad de la información. Las sucesivas reformas educativas han tratado de potenciar una formación de calidad en el alumnado y mejorar la enseñanza del profesorado. Este artículo tiene como objetivos: a) analizar el nivel de información académico-laboral del alumnado para la toma de decisiones en los Ciclos Formativos de Grado Medio y de Grado Superior; b) conocer las expectativas académico-laborales del alumnado; c) analizar las metas personales, académicas y profesionales que priorizan en su proyecto de vida; d) determinar si existen diferencias respecto al proyecto vital y la toma de decisiones del alumnado en función del sexo y del nivel de Ciclo Formativo cursado. En el estudio participaron 251 alumnos de cuatro Institutos de Tenerife. Se utilizó una adaptación del Cuestionario de Orientación Académico-Laboral diseñado por el Grupo de Investigación en Orientación Educativa y Sociolaboral de la Universidad de La Laguna. Los resultados muestran: 1) una relación significativa entre el sexo y las especialidades cursadas, entre la toma de decisiones y el Ciclo Formativo, y entre las expectativas laborales y el Ciclo Formativo; 2) diferencias significativas en la información para la toma de decisiones y en los objetivos vitales en función del Ciclo Formativo. Se ha de potenciar y reestructurar los Departamentos de Orientación para hacer frente a la formación y el desarrollo personal de los estudiantes de Ciclos Formativos.

In the present paper I intend to put forward some inquiries regarding the socio-labor guidance and transition of the young people in the co-ordinates of contemporary society. The outstanding paradox in which some young people are immersed when trying to get a first, second, third employment is also analyzed: "The job of looking for a job". This is a common experience shared by many young people when they try to find a place in the complex labor panorama. Looking for a job is a recurrent situation in contemporary society, given the high dose of precarious employment in which the productive world moves. Life-long jobs belong to the past and what is normal is that people strive to enter the competitive labor market repeatedly. Moreover, the paper offers the partial results of a larger research project that approaches tutorship, decision taking and expectations before the academic-labor future of the studentship in the last years of secondary school. Finally, I suggest some insights in the line that it is not longer feasible to work with old-fashioned guidance, trying to channel people's vocation and offering them information so that they get a job that provides them with the happiness of "doing what you like". Behind these ideas lay the normal biographies, the predictable itineraries. Labor market complexity makes the transition to working life very difficult. Once immersed in it, biographies and labor itineraries are constructed and reconstructed at the rhythm of the changing fortunes of times., Departamento de Psicología