The Paradigm Shift of College Career Counseling under the Complexity Background

Abstract

Along with the gradual awareness of the complexity of career development, research paradigm has changed significantly. At present, career counseling present these tendencies: (1) the complexity characteristics has been explained in the framework of career chaos theory; (2) individual’s unique life experience, meaning construction, as well as the serendipity are given full attention; (3) the pursuit of career counseling is no longer rigid certainty and instead stresses the importance of continuously learning and adaptation to enhance “meta-competence”;(4) information-giving, rational decision-making and narrative-oriented technology has been integrated.