| 要約(英文) |
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether what university students “want to do” correlates with their success during the job hunting process. Recently, career education emphasizes that university students have personal goals, in other words, what they want to do, in order to find a job. Some studies on the transition from university to work, which has influenced career education, point out that university students should have long-held personal goals for work. Meanwhile, the research on unemployment among youth shows that personal goals are not necessary, and studies on the recruitment of new graduates argue that having personal goals is only important during the job hunting process. However, it has yet to be revealed whether university students’ personal goals are connected to the results of job hunting. Therefore, this study analyzed the connection between personal goals before and after job hunting and their result, with the data collected from a two-wave panel survey conducted in 2011 and 2012.The results showed that there was no correlation between having personal goals for work before job hunting and the result, while clarifying personal goals during the job hunting process correlated with finding a job. These results suggest that personal goals university students had before job hunting was not as important as career education had emphasized, and this also implies that career education might have not provided proper support for them to get a job. Thus, this paper suggests understanding job hunting as an activity that required of university students to adapt to society. |
