A Case Study on Career Counseling Using CSI(Career Story Interview) about Non-Major Enrolled University Students

Objectives This study is a case study of career counseling using the Career Story Interview (CSI) for university students who entered the university without a major. The purpose of this study is to present practical counseling cases related to the career paths of non-major university students. Methods Career story interviews (CSI) were conducted with seven non-major university students at K University who wished to participate in the study, and counseling data was collected. The collected data were analyzed within and between cases according to Creswell's analysis method. Results In the case analysis, the counseling content of 7 non-majoring university students was summarized and presented for each case. Through case-by-case analysis, 11 subcategories and 5 super-categories were derived. The five upper categories are ‘implicit career exploration through role models’, ‘attempts to connect life interests with career interests’, ‘exploring ways to cope with life through preferred stories’, ‘setting life direction and putting actions into practice through advice given to oneself’, and ‘the archetype of life discovered in early memories’, and they were composed in a form that linked the question categories of the career story interview with the characteristics of non-major admitted university students. The subcategories reflect the situation of having no major and being undecided about one's career path, while also exploring the self-construction and career-construction patterns of non-major university students as they participate in career story interviews. Conclusions Through this study, we were able to confirm that career counseling using CSI is effective for non-major university students, and explore the direction of career counseling for non-major students. In particular, the need to develop counseling programs and extracurricular programs based on career path composition theory has been raised. It was confirmed that the process of recalling and confirming early memories during the career counseling process for non-major university students is an important factor in determining the direction of life by exploring the origin of life. Based on the research results, three research implications and three research suggestions were presented.