학생선수 출신 직업상담사의 진로전환 경험에 관한 자문화기술지

Abstract

Objectives The purposes of this study is to investigate my career transition experience in life development from a student athlete to a vocational counselor and the meaning of my experiences. The study also aimed to have a self-examination and understand clients in a career transition. For these purposes, the researcher set the following research questions based on a self-examination into my experiences as the research participant: first, what were my various career transition experiences from a student athlete to a vocational counselor?: second, what meaning do various career transitions have from a student athlete to a vocational counselor? Methods The purposes of this study was analyzed and used as self-reflection data through self-cultural descriptive papers that mainly used self-reflection data related to career transition. In order to secure the reliability and validity of this study, the confessional-sentimental writing method and analytical-interpretative writing method among the writing techniques suggested by Chang(2008) were mainly used to collect research data. It was reviewed by two experienced counseling professors who has extensive experience in qualitative research methods. Results The findings were as follows: First, a career transition is not a matter of change, but a matter of how one perceives his or her change. A counselor should understand his or her clients as individuals with their own relationships and career transitions and provide them with help. Secondly, I saw an occupation as a series of completing myself and exhibited a self-examination attitude for adjustment with a set of proper coping strategies including a positive and optimistic attitude toward a career transition and an inquiry into my perceptions of a career transition for adjustment and my personal resources. Conclusions These findings will offer some counseling tools to help individuals make constant attempts at a career transition and explore and accept their meaning in their career transition process, including the meaning and concept of career, vocational changes according to their individual internal and external environments, family relationships, starting, adjusting to, and quitting a career transition, and reemployment, efforts.