Effects of an Adaptive Mobile Profession-Consulting System on Students' Competency Development

Abstract

The literature reveals that the youth unemployment rate is largely increasing in recent years, and learning-application gap is a major problem in current societies. Universities are important places for cultivating professions that assisting students integrating learning and application becomes primary. An adaptive mobile profession-consulting system integrating student capability and interests is developed in this study to assist students connecting what they learn in the universities with the needs in the workplace. With questionnaire survey, 475 senior students in a university are surveyed in this study. The findings show that, in comparison with general career consultation, the use of the adaptive mobile profession-consulting system presents significant effect on assisting students in understanding self-capability and interests, planning future career development, satisfaction with career consultation, and the way of career consultation correspondent with expectation. To have students combine the learning with the application, it is suggested to include the assistance of mobile technology, integrate students' capability and interests, and help students understand the current situations of the workplace to enhance the employability and competitiveness and reinforce the future career development.