Article ID: 49099
This study aims to explore the self-construction process of university students who participated in Career Construction Interview (CCI) sessions conducted by a professional career counselor. In particular, after completing a career education course, four students each participated in two sessions of the CCI developed by Savickas. The subsequently collected semi-structured interview data were analyzed using the Modified Grounded Theory Approach (M-GTA), yielding five categories and 19 concepts. The results indicated a career construction process where students, starting from “bewilderment within sociocultural practices” and “awareness through dialogue,” came to “articulate richer, more nuanced self-narratives,” thereby resulting in “self-understanding through reflection” and “self-acceptance through deep reflexivity,” ultimately cultivating expectations and hopes for their future careers. Notably, in counselor-led CCI sessions, the complete sequence of career construction formulated by Savickas—construction, deconstruction, reconstruction, and co-construction—was observed, a progression not achieved in the peer-based CCI exercises conducted during the course.
