Abstract
To assist Chinese high school students in improving their career readiness and tackling career decision-making difficulties, we designed a synchronous online career intervention based on the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory during the Covid-19 pandemic. The online career intervention consisted of a series of career courses to develop high school students’ knowledge and skills in career planning, career assessments for exploring their vocational interests and academic self-concept, and a database providing basic information about university majors. To evaluate the intervention’s effectiveness, 957 10th grade students were recruited in the study, 601 participants (girls = 227, boys = 324) were randomly assigned to the experimental group (online career intervention), and 356 (girls = 159, boys = 197) participants were randomly assigned to the control group (no any career interventions). All participants completed a pre- and post-intervention assessment of their career maturity, vocational identity and career decision-making difficulties. Results indicated that the online intervention significantly increased high school students’ career readiness and reduced their career decision-making difficulties. The practical implications of this research for online career interventions directed at Chinese high school students are also discussed.
Highlights
The rapid socio-economic development occurring in China over the last four decades has made the process of choosing a career increasingly challenging, especially under boundaryless careers (Kost et al, 2020)
We made three main hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: the online career intervention would increase high school students’ career readiness; Hypothesis 2: the intervention would decrease students’ career decision-making difficulties; Hypothesis 3: gender would be a significant moderator of the intervention effect
The results found that 91.21% of participants were satisfied with the teachers’ teaching competence, 87.24% considered that the career intervention had been helpful and 90.46% of participants approved the arrangement of the five sections
Summary
The rapid socio-economic development occurring in China over the last four decades has made the process of choosing a career increasingly challenging, especially under boundaryless careers (Kost et al, 2020). The multiplicity of measures and choices under the new system requires high school students to engage in career planning at an early stage and demands greater rigor from schools in their approach to career counseling. To minimize the negative impacts of Online Intervention for Career Readiness the pandemic on education teaching work, many countries and regions have made unified arrangements for a series of policies and measures (Xue et al, 2020; Mitescu-Manea et al, 2021; Ramot and Donitsa-Schmidt, 2021). Online career interventions to improve students’ career choices, have remained largely absent from this process. Set out to design and test an online career intervention aiming to help Chinese high school students during the Covid pandemic
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