Data set related to vocational guidance and skills in eleven-grade teenagers: learning channels and Skills Inventories, Barranquilla context.

The data related in this research allow us to identify characteristics in the choice of professional careers in eleven-grade teenagers. The participating population was made up of 270 respondents, ranging in age from 15 to 20 years, all students from private schools in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. Among the main relevant data, it is possible to show through the tables presented, percentages of career options in students, inclination in the spaces where they are projected working, skills in adolescents compared to the choice of career, identification of channels of learning according to areas of knowledge. The data can be used to analyze and develop institutional mechanisms in secondary and higher education, in order to address vocational guidance as the main axis of success in higher education.