Effectiveness of Career Counselling for Freshmen Undergraduate Students: A Constructionists Intervention Study
Abstract
Abstract – Preparation of a 21st-century workforce starts at the level of adequate career guidance and counseling among universities in the world. Competencies and skills of the future workforce contribute to the growth and development of countries. Hence, investment in human resource development requires effective partnership and input between the academe and society. This study employed a quasi-experimental design to ascertain the effectiveness of constructionist career counseling for first-year students undergraduate students. A total of 54 respondents were 27 were randomly assigned to the experimental group, and 27 to the control group were the respondents of the study. The experimental group was exposed to constructionist career counseling, while the control grouped was immersed in the traditional technique. Data were gathered using a standard research instrument. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed. Results revealed that showed that the intervention using constructionist career counseling displayed substantially low indecisiveness on the respondents’ career paths, insecurity, and anxiety about future career, instability, and uncertainty about graduation employment and worry about future finances after the exposure to the intervention. Moreover, this study also highlights the integration of conventional and constructionist approaches to strengthen the career guidance of universities around the world further. Results may present implications for the career counseling program of universities.
