Eirik Øvernes has his background in pedagogy with an early focus on online teaching.
For several years he was a project manager at the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine and led national and international projects. The projects facilitated interaction and learning among healthcare personnel over a distance using various forms of technology. He has led large projects that established national digital further education offers for large numbers of teachers.
Today he leads the national digital career guidance service, Karriereveiledning.no. The service is free and anonymous and offers career guidance via chat and telephone, in addition to self-help tools on the website.