How online career counseling changes career development: A life design paradigm

Online career counseling success: the role of hardiness and psychological capital

“…These data are valuable, because they provide the necessary context to discuss the quality of interactions and in this case, it can be determined whether the discussions are desirable or not. The results of findings of this section about the effect of the online counseling on career decision-making of the youth are consistent with Hooley ( 2012 ) who investigated the effect of the internet on the career development, with Rutten et al ( 2016 ), who investigated the effect of social networks on career skills, with Chen et al ( 2018 ), who investigated the effect of the online training on career adaptability, with Pordelan et al ( 2018 ), who investigated the effect of the online intervention on career development of students, and with Denzinger et al ( 2019 ), who studied the online interventions for families.…”

“…The disadvantages of high internet use are investigated and confirmed by many researchers. However, the internet as a technology has advantages such as promoting career development (Pordelan et al, 2018 ), facilitating career adaptability (Teychenne et al, 2019 ), reducing psychological disorders (Christensen et al, 2014 ; Hodgins et al, 2019 ), teaching and learning (Korhonen et al, 2019 ; Lee & Huang, 2018 ), and better career decision-making (Nota et al, 2016 ; Pordelan et al, 2020 ).…”

“…The online career counseling can function as a trustable tool and provide efficient information for counselors and those who need counseling services (Dozier et al, 2015 ). The inherent nature of the online career counseling and lack of presence in a social and face-to-face position opens the way to increase self-confident statement of the facts by the clients, which facilitate the online career counseling process (Pordelan et al, 2018 ). There is a lot of research evidence that in general, indicate the value and importance of the online counseling as well as the role of the internet in supporting the career development.…”

In the same boat? An online group career counseling with a group of young adults in the time of COVID-19

“…The group-based Life Designing counseling may be beneficial in terms of its potential social support (e.g., peer support), social skills trial, self-efficacy, and intrinsic motivation enhancement since sharing one's own experience with the group may facilitate the construction of meaning in life (Barclay & Stoltz, 2016). Indeed, the success of peer groups in supporting people facing various difficulties has been proven in numerous contexts, also related to vocational guidance and career counseling (Pordelan et al, 2018), job performance (e.g., Becker-Beck et al, 2005;Zhang & Venkatesh, 2013), and job search. In this respect, success refers to improvements in the situation all individuals are currently struggling with or in the way they deal with it (Felgenhauer et al, 2019).…”

“…Specifically, the intervention aimed at helping students in their career construction, fostering career and life goal setting. Another example is provided by Pordelan et al (2018), which developed five-session online counseling to promote students' career development based on the Life Design paradigm. In all online counseling sessions, resources provided to clients included playing the content as audio, introducing online books, PowerPoint presentations, videos, short animations, online chats with a career counselor, and providing technical and educational support.…”