2014 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 23-28
In the rapidly changing and increasingly complex society, the conventional systems of Japanese companies need to change in order to win in inter-enterprise or global competitions in the market. Especially in inter-enterprise competitions, recruiting top-class personnel may be a key point of differentiation. With such backgrounds, universities must act as an intermediary between the students as human resources and the employing companies. Therefore, universities must improve their career education so that they can educate and develop self-directed human resources who are capable of generating new values. This paper is on some characteristic extracurricular activities, supporting career development of students in a local science and technological university. In those activities the author will employ a group-approach method of career counseling, facilitating career development of the students. The effectiveness of the method and issues arose in ten-years of participant-observer studies will be presented and the modality of the future career education will be recommended.
