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

本研究旨在探讨大学生职业决策失败的机制。我进行了一些调查。一个是基于网络的2009年毕业生小组调查。另一个是对网络小组调查的受访者的访谈。第三部分是对高校就业服务机构工作人员和高校教师的访谈。本研究的主要发现之一，是他们在开始找工作之前对自己的技能或能力的自尊与他们做出职业决定的后果之间的关系。他们的自尊越少，他们就越不做决定。另外，没有做出职业决定的学生倾向于较少的求职活动。从减少求职失败的角度来看，本研究的启示是，我们不仅需要在求职季节开始之前提供教育或职业指导，而且还需要在求职过程中提供充分的就业安置服务。

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.