A study on the Needs of Career Guidance for University and College Students in Taiwan – An example of the Kaohsiung-Pingtung Area

• Main Authors: LIU, SHI-HUANG, 劉思煌
• Other Authors: LIN, KUAN-PEI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p9mye4

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 教育行政研究所 === 102 === A study on the Needs of Career Guidance for University and College Students in Taiwan – Anexample of the Kaohsiung-Pingtung Area This research applied investigation and interviews to reveal the status quo and the needs of career guidance for contemporary university and college students in Taiwan. Questionnaires weredistributed to senior students of the universities and colleges in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung Area. Interviews with staff members and directors of the career guidance units of the universities and colleges were carried out to investigate the needs of career placement of the students and the difficulties that they encountered when promoting career guidance. The findings were as follows: I. Career guidance should cover the three aspects of life, living, and livelihood: Career guidance hadalready incorporated the assisting of personal enterprise. Its core mission should focus on helping students to discover themselves, to make career planning, to cultivate their professional skills, to make connections to the job market, and to establish their integrated values. II. The content of job placement services should be diversified and instantaneous : Generally speaking, students of the Kaohsiung-Pingtung area hadcareer needs. Most of the students expected job placement services to provide “learning on the job (making visits),” “practicum,” and “career consultation.” These all showed that students have needs for professional services of career consultation. They had high expectations for schools to establish a stronger connection with the job market. III. In the implicit and explicit dilemma, career guidance was only getting half of the result with twice the effort: the positioning of career consultation was unclear; few human resources; industrial academic cooperation was not functioning well; students took few interest in participating career consultation activities and learned little from them; the families doted on the students, lowering their desire for getting a job; the companies only offered limited job openings and low salary so the graduating students were afraid of getting the jobs. From According to the findings, this research proposed the following suggestions: I. Providing step by step career guidance according to students’ needs and background experience. II. The curriculum should incorporate career planning and practicum (learning on the job) outside of school. III. Reinforce the structure, human resources, and functioning of the career guidance units. IV. Integrate governmental resources to lessen the burden of schools. V. Establishing a positive and encouraging system for the career guidance faculty. VI. Career planning should down roots in high school and vocational schools. Key Words: university and college students, career consultation