• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.183-188
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• 2018

This paper examines career self-help advice in light of its influence on white-collar job searching in the US. After a brief overview of the white-collar labor market changes in the past few decades and the rise of the career self-help industry in America, it focuses on career self-help advice concerning a resume and networking that involves the use of information communication technology (ICT) through the review of career self-help manuals and other related literature. Finally, it looks at some of its major limits, especially the problem of presenting job searching in terms of individual efforts without regard to its structural aspects and its implications - individual responsibility for job searching and its outcomes - along with a suggestion for the type of help that can be offered to job seekers.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.134-140
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• 2019

This paper examines career self-help advice as one of the important channels that offers converged information, as well as influences popular perception, on white-collar labor market changes in the U.S. In this regard, the paper critically looks at career self-help advice by examining its discourses on the shift to white-collar employment insecurity as well as their problems. It especially focuses on a few of the leading career self-help books as an exemplary case, showing that they urge people to readily embrace the rise of precarious employment by presenting it as an inevitable as well as positive and empowering development. The paper also explores the problems with such accounts, showing how they foremost serve the needs of corporations seeking workplace changes.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.10-18
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• 2017

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify personal, contextual, and cognitive factors influencing the career preparation behavior of Korean nursing students. In this study, an examination was done of the fitness of a path model for the relationship among these factors based on the social cognitive career theory. Methods: The participants were 413 nursing students in South Korea. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires that included self-esteem, social support, self-efficacy, outcome expectation, career decision level, and career preparation behavior. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analysis, and path analysis. Results: The factors influencing career preparation behavior were self-efficacy, career decision level, self-esteem, outcome expectation, and social support. The factors influencing career decision level were self-efficacy, outcome expectation, self-esteem, and social support. Conclusion: The findings indicate that self-efficacy is an important factor influencing the career behavior of Korean nursing students. Nurse educators should consider personal, contextual, and cognitive factors of nursing students and develop systemic career guidance programs to help nursing students' career preparation behavior.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.73-79
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• 2022

Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the correlation among dental hygiene students' life stress, grit, and career decisionmaking self-efficacy, and to identify the factors influencing career decision-making self-efficacy. Methods: Data were collected through a survey from October 19 to November 7, 2020, targeting 196 students enrolled in dental hygiene departments in Daejeon and Daegu. Life stress, grit, and career decision-making self-efficacy were measured. For data analysis, the descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis were performed using SPSS/WIN 24.0. Results: Life stress was 2.12 points, grit was 3.07 points, and career decision-making self-efficacy was 3.43 points. Career decision-making self-efficacy was influenced by satisfaction with the course department, as well as life stress and grit; the most influential factor was found to be grit. These variables could explain career decision-making self-efficacy by 23.8%. Conclusions: For students to advance successfully into society as dental hygienists, a career decision-making self-efficacy promotion program that can help students achieve self-confidence and establish career goals should be developed. additionally, a program that can enhance grit should be included in this development.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.66-79
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• 2023

Purpose: This study examined the self-esteem, self-leadership, and career identity of nursing students to identify the influence of self-esteem and self-leadership on career identity. Methods: This study was a descriptive survey of 192 students from six nursing colleges. The descriptive statistics, independent two-sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression analysis were used for statistical analyses. Results: The career identity correlated with self-esteem and self-leadership. A positive correlation was observed between self-leadership and self-esteem. The factors influencing career identity were self-esteem, satisfaction with the major, motivation (aptitude and interest), and desired career after graduation (hospital employment). The explanatory power of these variables was 42.3% in total. Conclusion: To develop a strong career identity for nursing students, it is essential to provide various educational programs that can increase self-esteem, improve awareness of the major, help students understand the roles and responsibilities of nurses, and provide opportunities to explore career options.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.324-335
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• 2020

This study sought to find out the impact of a university student's parental love on their career maturity and the effect of adjusting their career-setting self-efficiency and cognitive flexibility in their relationship. For this purpose, 362 college students in Daejeon, Chungnam, and Seoul were analyzed, there were significant differences between parental attachment and career-setting self-efficiency depending on gender, according to the study. Second, career-setting self-efficiency had a significant impact on career maturity. Third, the effect of controlling cognitive flexibility and career-setting self-efficiency was seen between parental affections and career maturity. This shows that parents attachment may have different effects on university students' career maturity, depending on the degree of career-setting self-efficiency, cognitive flexibility in the process of parental affection affecting the university students' career maturity. Therefore, it can be used to develop various programs that can help individuals decide their career path with recognizing that there are different internal factors within the university student group.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.281-289
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of career decision making type, career self regulation, self leadership on career adaptability of nursing student. Subjects were 215 nursing students at a university in Chungchung-Namdo. Data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that Career Adaptability had significant positive correlations with self regulation, self leadership, rational decision making type, intuitive decision making type. These variables explained 62.7% of the variance on nursing students career adaptability. Development and provision of intervention programs to increase self leadership, career self regulation and rational decision making type will help to increase nursing students's career adaptability.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.214-220
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between self-identity, Career choice factors and employment preparation activities of college students. The research subjects were the group of 2091 college students who participated in Korean Children Youth Panel Survey(KCYPS) as 7th graders. Their 7th year data in 2016 were analyzed by using SPSS 21.0, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis. Self identity was found significant and positive correlations between career choice factors and not employment preparation activities. and It was found that their self-identity of college students exerts a statistically significant effect on their career choice factors but not on their employment preparation activities. The research result is expected to help arrange detailed educational programs and/or self-identifying programs to help college students choose a career choice and prepare for employment-seeking activities.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.335-344
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of self-efficacy and social support on career decision level for fisheries and merchant marine high school students. And it will help improving the Fisheries and Merchant Marine High School students' career decision level. To achieve the purpose of this research, the study carried out a survey targeting 456 fisheries and merchant marine high school students. Analysis methods includes Frequency Analysis, One way ANOVA, t-test, and Regression Analysis and data was analyzed by PASW Statistics 18. The results are as follows: First, fisheries and merchant marine high school students' self-efficacy and social support were generally positive. Second, The effects of the grade, the major and the school of students on self-efficacy showed statistically significant difference. Third, the higher self-efficacy and social support of students were, the higher career decision level was. Lastly, The effects of self-efficacy and social support on career decision level were valued positive.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.227-236
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• 2012

This study aims to examine what influence a career exploration group counselling program has on career decision-making self-efficacy and career maturity of female college students. As a result of the study, it was discovered that the career exploration group counselling program had statistically significant influence on goal choice, job information and future plan which are sub-variables of career decision-making self-efficacy while it had no significant influence on problem solving. Also the program had a statistically significant influence on decision, independency, and involvement which are sub-variables of career maturity while it had no significant influence on compromise. Such results show that the career exploration group counselling program had a significant influence on career decision-making self-efficacy and career maturity of the subjects. Therefore, it is suggested that the career exploration group counselling program should be properly developed and provided so that students can choose career which fit for their aptitude and ability. Further, courses for career exploration group counselling program should be provided at universities to help them with career.