A study of the failure of making their career decision in college students -using the panel survey method

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The purpose of this study is to examine the mechanism of the failure of making their career decision in college students. I have conducted some surveys. One is the web-based panel survey of the graduating students 2009. Another is the interviews to the same students that have been the respondents to the web-based panel survey. The third is the interviews to a staff of the placement service in college and the college teacher. One of the major findings of this study is the relation between the self-esteem of their skills or abilities which they had before beginning job-hunting and the consequence of making their career decision. The less self-esteem they have, the more they don't make decision. Also, students who don't make career decision tend to be less activities of job-hunting. From the point of view of decreasing the failure, the implication of this study is that we need to provide not only education or career guidance in advance of the beginning of the job-hunting season, but also job placement service during the job-hunting sufficiently.