The plan is the document produced from the goals you agreed on the Planning Board and signed by both of you. Open it with Plan document on the Planning Board tab.
Some national frameworks call this an Individual Career Plan or ICP. In Counselor OS it is simply the plan.
What it contains
| Section | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Who this plan is for | Participant, counselor, organisation |
| Where you are starting from | Completed education, and any barriers with the support agreed. If education is not recorded, it says so — routes are drawn from the beginning |
| What we discussed | Your own summary, attributed to you by name |
| The goals, at one glance | Only when there is more than one goal — fit and labour-market signal per goal |
| Where you are going | Where the participant wants to work, which study catalogues the routes came from, and how many countries have job-market evidence |
| Your goal / Your goals | Each goal with its education route, deadlines, regulation and level |
| Your schedule | Only when there are dated steps across more than one goal — the same steps in the order they fall due |
| What each of us commits to | Two columns: what the participant will do, and what you and the organisation will do |
| When we look at this again | The review date, how you will both know it is working, and the version history |
| Signatures | Both names and both dates once signed; blank rules before that |
The commitments section is two-sided by design. A plan listing only what the participant must do is not an agreement.
Work and study destinations are stated separately. Where someone wants to work and which country's programmes you searched are two different facts, and they are often two different countries. A plan that merged them would read as a single decision nobody made. Where a destination was never stated, the document says so rather than filling the gap silently.
Fit appears as a band and a figure — "Stretch · 34%". The Planning Board shows only the band, because in conversation the band is the whole of it. The document carries the figure too: it will be read a year from now by somebody who was not in the room.
Versions
Signing is what creates a version. Before anyone signs there is no v1 — only a working draft that the two of you can see.
Versions are numbered per counseling service. If a participant is also being guided by another provider, that provider's first plan is their v1, not a continuation of your numbering.
In force means the newest signed version. It stays in force until a newer one is signed — see Revising a signed plan.
Two guarantees
Nothing in a signed plan is written by AI. The document is assembled from recorded facts and from what you and the participant wrote. No model composes any part of it.
It is frozen at signing. The document is built once, at the moment of signing, and stored as it was. Printing v1 a year later prints what was actually signed, not a reconstruction from today's data.
If a stored copy is ever unavailable, the document says so at the top rather than quietly showing you current data instead.
What happened to everything else
When a version is signed, occupations still sitting in Suggestions or The shortlist are set aside — recorded as not part of that agreement, with the reason and the version noted.
They are parked, not deleted, and can be brought back at a review.
Checking a plan is genuine
Every signed plan carries a verification code and a QR code, both leading to a public page at nexpath.eu/verify. An employer, a school or an authority holding the printed document can enter the code and confirm it was issued through NexPath.
The check returns three things only: the version, the date it was signed, and the issuing organisation. It does not return the participant's name, their goals, or anything else in the plan. Verification answers "is this document real?" — not "what does it say?", which is the holder's business and nobody else's.
An unrecognised code is answered plainly rather than treated as an error. There is no way to tell from the page whether a code belongs to a plan that does not exist or one you are not entitled to see, because the page never had that distinction to leak.
On an unsigned draft the space is reserved and captioned, so the layout does not shift when it is signed and nobody mistakes a draft for a verifiable document.
Printing
Print this opens a clean copy and sends it to your browser's print dialog, which is also how you save it as a PDF. It prints the version you are looking at — including an older signed version, if that is what you have open.
A caption above the button always says which document you have: "Not signed. This is what the next version would say.", "Version 1, as it was signed." or "The agreement in force."
The participant can print or save their own copy the same way.
Related
- Your Counseling Desk — the whole surface this sits on
- Sending a plan for signing
- Revising a signed plan
- Working on the Planning Board