About the Career Center

    At Fukui Prefectural University, the Career Center offers programs that allow students to proactively and independently develop their careers. The Career Center provides career education and career guidance to help students cultivate their own career awareness. It also provides information that is useful for students in choosing their career path. Programs provided by the Career Center from the perspectives of both education and service support allow students to research companies thoroughly and make decision with careful consideration.

Features of Career Education

     Career education courses for students enrolled in all undergraduate departments at the university are offered by a full-time faculty. These courses are designed to help students confirm the relationship between the fulfillment of their student life and career design, and to (1) deepen their vocational and self-understanding and consider the kind of career they wish to pursue, and (2) acquire knowledge about the social environment and labor market and put it into practice in their career development. These courses are not merely job-hunting preparation courses to motivate students to find employment, but are a group of courses designed to foster career development awareness, aiming to acquire the basic knowledge necessary for students to build the work and life careers of their own choice.

General Education Course

     Introduction to Career Development is offered to students of all departments as a general education course. As it is mainly aimed at first-year students, it is designed to help them understand the need for the transition from high school to university learning, taking into consideration its aspect as first-year education. To recognize the need to pay attention to social conditions, economic and employment trends are explained using reliable news sources such as newspaper articles, and basic knowledge is solidified. In addition, guest speakers are invited from information-related companies to give lectures on social changes and career development.

Faculty of Economics Courses

     As specialized related courses, the following courses are offered to students of the Faculty of Economics: Introduction to Career Design Ⅰ, Career Design Ⅱ, and Career Development.

Introduction to Career Design Ⅰ

     The purpose is to confirm the significance of enriching one's future student life, deepen one's understanding of industry and the professional world, and solidify the foundations for one's own ideal career design. As this course is mainly aimed at first-year students, the lectures are designed to help them understand the need for the transition from high school to university learning, with a view to providing first-year education. In order to recognize the need to pay attention to social situation, economic and employment trends will be explained using newspaper articles and other reliable news sources, helping students to solidify basic knowledge. The relationship between industry and occupations, perspectives on the professional world, and business entities such as companies will be explained, allowing students to acquire basic knowledge. Students will learn about the latest trends in the changing labor environment and working styles based on various statistical data.

Introduction to Career Design Ⅱ

     The course will provide students with the opportunity to deepen their self-understanding, to consider the kind of career they wish to pursue, and to recognize the matters necessary to realize their career design goals. In order to understand oneself from multiple perspectives, various assessment tools including the Vocational Preference Inventory, scales, and worksheets will be used. The theory behind the use of these tools will be outlined and the results will be accurately interpreted. Stress management will also be taught through self-help, focusing on cognitive approaches. Guest speakers will be invited, such as business executives and graduates of the University.

Career Development

     This course is intended for second-year students and above. Therefore, students will enhance their career planning skills, design their careers based on their self-understanding, and improve their self-expression skills to prepare for their upcoming career choices, job hunting activities, and occupational decisions. The course will also include many exercises using various worksheets and scales in order to understand the relationship between the content of self-understanding and career choices. In particular, reliable tests such as the Self Directed Search and the General Aptitude Test Battery would be used, and explanations will be given on how to accurately interpret the results. Corporate executives and graduates of this university will be invited as guest speakers. The course is not limited to choosing a job, but also covers the concept of lifelong career development.

Support by the Career Center

     When job hunting, it is necessary to analyze the self-growth gained through university studies and experiences, and to properly convey one's strengths and enthusiasm to employers. The Career Center provides thorough support tailored to each student through a variety of programs and individual interview support.

Employment Guidance

     The guidance is provided throughout the year for third-year and second-year students. The guidance consists of thematic content that enables students to learn about job hunting from the ground up, including industry research and self-analysis methods. There is also an opportunity to listen to the experiences and advice of senior students who have successfully job-hunted. The following are examples: industry research, internship preparation, writing self-promotional materials, entry sheets, manners classes, etc.

Company Briefings

     Career Center invites companies from within and outside of Fukui Prefecture to hold company information sessions and industry seminars. Joint company information sessions are held on-campus and attended by more than 150 companies every year. Opportunities are provided for direct communication with recruiters from a wide range of industries and university alumni. In addition, numerous individual company information sessions are held throughout the year.

Preparation Courses

     Every year, more than 20% of students at Fukui Prefectural University find employment as national or local government officials. In order to meet these needs, Career Center offers preparatory courses for civil service examinations in tie-ups with major vocational schools. Furthermore, Career Center strongly supports students who wish to become civil servants by holding information sessions inviting government and municipal office recruiters and graduates, as well as debriefing sessions for those who have received job offers.

Individual Consultation

     The Career Center is staffed by employment advisors who have experience in corporate recruiting and are well versed in career consulting. Therefore, they are always available to provide individual, careful advice to students. Practical support for job hunting, such as corrections to resumes and letters, and practice for interviews, is always available.

Internship

     We coordinate the application process for the Fukui Internship, which some departments also award credits for. We also coordinate guest lectures by inviting corporate representatives at the request of faculties and departments.

Information System

     Career Center have developed the information viewing system exclusively for use within the university. This allows us to provide a lot of useful information, such as job information from companies, records of job-hunting experiences by graduates, internship information, events information, and shoulder replacement of scholarship repayments by companies. In addition, students can use a platform called "BizReach Campus" to directly contact alumni, ahead of other public universities nationwide and universities in the Hokuriku region.

Guidance for Parents

     At the career guidance session for parents, the latest trends regarding the hiring environment and job hunting activities, as well as the image of human resources that companies are looking for, are conveyed.