The e-portfolio process encourages the learners to reflect on their plans, learning, achievements and progress. This is very similar to the process that many career, vocational and youth counsellors use when they work with learners. Counsellors try to get learners, many of whom might not be fully engaged or motivated, to recognize their strengths and achievements and to take a more active part in planning their own learning and progression.
 
The e-portfolio, by storing evidence of the learner’s planning, achievements and reflections, provides a very useful focus for a discussion and is a good starting point for the counselling process. It helps the counsellor to identify the learners' abilities and interests which means that they can better understand their personality and aspirations, and in turn assess their progress, highlighting additional training needs or progression routes.

There are typical areas in which the consultants could use e-portfolios method and corresponding tools:

• For identifying the students’ abilities and interests, e-portfolios could be a good starting point of any counseling process;
• For better understanding the student personality; e-portfolios could show not only interests, knowledge and abilities but also  the behaviour, the vision of the client;
• e-portfolios could be used as measurement tool; in case students need some additional training or in case they received some additional knowledge about something, e-portfolios could show the changes in their current status;
• Last but not least e-portfolios could be used as an indication for potential early school leavers. For example, the great difference between a person's interests and current studiesand his/her negative opinion about school could be indicators of becoming an outsider;