The Impact Of Emotional Intelligence On Career Decision-Making Process

Every person will encounter the career decision-making in his life. Different occupation means different life style. Decision-Making and judgment are fundamental activities in our lives, and we need make decision constantly. Although not all of decisions are important, some are really very important. E.g. career decision-making. There are few other decisions that exert as profound an influence on people's lives as the choice of a field of word or career. Although emotion may once have been viewed as something to be avoided when making important life decisions, recent research and theories of emotional intelligence point to the interdependence of emotion and cognition in the decision-making process. So it has important theoretic and practice meaning to study the impact of emotional intelligence on career decision-making process.There are three parts in this paper. In the first part reviewed the researches about career decision-making and emotional intelligence that indicate career decision-making is a multistage information process which can be influenced by individual's emotion.In the second part have two specific studies. One is the relationship of emotional intelligence and career decision-making self-efficacy, which show there are different extent gender differences between emotional intelligence and career decision-making' different dimensions. There also have different impact of emotional intelligence's four dimensions on career decision-making's each dimension. The other is the impact of emotional intelligence on career decision-making's strategy which indicates career decision-making is a bounded rationality and multistage decision-making process. There are different influences of emotional intelligence's each dimension on time of decision-making, depth of search and pattern of search in career decision-making.In the last part, the whole study is reviewed and the actual values are pointed out. Then the deficiency in the study and the expectation in future study are put forward.