Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v8i6.5543
Abstract
Career education in Chinese private universities is often delivered in isolated segments, weakening its effect on students' long-term career development. Drawing on Savickas's life-span, life-space theory, this paper puts forward a Career Adaptability-driven 4C Linked-Course Model that reorganizes four existing courses into a sequence running from semester 1 to semester 6. The model has been piloted at Qingdao City University since Fall 2025 and brings together three components: a faculty-run XiaoZhi Studio for counseling referrals, two national competitions adopted as authentic assessment tools, and cooperation with external enterprises. Early data indicate gains across the four dimensions of career adaptability‒concern, control, curiosity, and confidence‒and point to a workable way of turning career education into a sustained, student-centered developmental process.
Keywords
career adaptability; private universities; curriculum design; studio counseling
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[3] Jiang J. Research on career planning curriculum system under the background of applied transformation in private universities[C]//Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research. Paris: Atlantis Press, 2020, 516: 13-18.
[4] Savickas M L. Career adaptability: An integrative construct for life-span, life-space theory[J]. The Career Development Quarterly, 1997, 45(3): 247-259.
[5] Savickas M L, Porfeli E J. Career adapt-abilities scale: Construction, reliability, and measurement equivalence across 13 countries[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012, 80(3): 661-673.
[6] Guan Y, Deng H, Sun J, et al. Career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and outcomes: A three-wave investigation among Chinese university graduates[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2013, 83(3): 561-570.
[7] Hou Z J, Leung S A, Li X, et al. Career adapt-abilities scale—China form: construction and initial validation[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012, 80(3): 686-691.
[8] Koen J, Klehe U C, Van Vianen A E M.Training career adaptability to facilitate a successful school-to-work transition[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012, 81(3): 395-408.
[9] Zacher H. Career adaptability predicts subjective career success above and beyond personality traits and core self-evaluations[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2014, 84(1): 21-30.
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