The Research On College Counselors’ Career From The Perspective Of Professional Ability

As the backbone of Student Affairs in universities, counselors are the instructors and guides during the healthy growth of undergraduates, they are also the irreplaceable important group during the development of colleges and universities. The career planning and management of counselor troops, is not only the actual requirement and inevitable choice of counselor’s individual career development, but also is the important strategy and will choose of the realization of the college education development goals. So, a deep exploration on counselors’ career, is significant for counselors and universities.This study discusses career for the counselors of research-oriented universities as the object. By using the case study strategy of qualitative research,adhering to the narrative research orientation, this study gathers the detailed material about counselors’ occupational life scenes and career history, through the depth interview for10counselors, and by using the combination of situation analysis and kind analysis on materials, this paper discovers the status of counselors’ career, views about vocational ability and the change of professional ability during the career, discusses influence factors during the development of career, tries to find some empirical rule of counselors’ career development, in order to cause counselors who are in the same situation, to empathize, look back at their career. Meanwhile, this study also hopes departments and managers of university to understand the feeling and needs of teachers, understand their experiences in working life, establish a feasible career management system for counselor professional development to provide good organizational environment and the necessary objective support.This paper is divided into five chapters in total, and discusses from the following four sections.Part one, it is the first chapter. First, this chapter explains topic background and significance of the paper, define the meaning of key concepts in the paper, and introduces the relevant theories of career development and vocational ability. And then summarizes the related research on the career of counselors and professional ability. At last, illustrates my research plan, explicit the research question, methods and thinking of this study.Part two, it is the second chapter. This section describes the research method and the causes, tells the specific steps and procedures to carry out this research. Finally, this section narrates the researchers’ reflection of study validity, reasoning degree and ethics.Part three, constitutes of the third and fourth chapters. Based on the interview materials from10counselors, the third chapter describes the current situation of their career, discusses the organization scenario and individual factors which influences on the internal and external career of counselor. And expounds the counselor’s view about vocational ability, try to describe the understanding of professional ability from the individual visual, present the experience of the vocational ability change during counselor’s career. The fourth chapter extracts two representative cases which from the interview materials, chooses their career course as narrates clue to describe the change of vocational ability during their career, discusses the moments and factors which triggered these changes.Part four, that is the fifth chapter. This chapter is the taste of the study, to summarize the finding of the research and discuss and introspect the research.