Career Guidance and Counseling for University Students in China

Vincy Jing Sun,Mantak Yuen

doi:10.1007/s10447-012-9151-y

Vincy Jing Sun, Mantak Yuen

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10447-012-9151-y

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Abstract

In recent years, various forms of career guidance and career counseling have become more prominent and better serviced in most universities throughout the world. Such services are obviously to the benefit of the students themselves and for society. After an initially slow start, researchers and practitioners in China have now begun to focus on the localization of guidance and counselling theory and strategies in order to match more exactly actual employment situations in different regions of the country. This should result in a service that meets students' needs more effectively. Using mainly core literature examining the context of career guidance and counseling in China from 2001 to the present, this paper elaborates on the current situation and summarizes the progress that has been made. The authors detail the content, implementation, problems that exist, and ways of improving projects of this kind in Chinese universities. Conclusions and suggestions for further research on career guidance and counseling are provided.

Highlights

Theories of career guidance and counseling that exist in China were mainly adopted from Europe and the United States, in the period since 1990
Key words searched in the Chinese journal data-base in relation to this study were ‘career guidance,’ ‘employment guidance’ and ‘career planning.’
This suggests that research on career guidance in China started late, but developed very rapidly

Summary

Introduction

Theories of career guidance and counseling that exist in China were mainly adopted from Europe and the United States, in the period since 1990. In the situation existing at present in most Chinese universities, employment guidance still dominates over career planning (Wu 2008). Fang and Tan (2010) claimed that papers on career counseling for university students in China are even fewer in number, and generally lack practical strategies or data from empirical studies.

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