大学のキャリアセンターにおける就職支援を目的としたピア・サポート活動

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The objective of this study is to grasp the real situation of peer-support activities for students’ job-hunting at university career centers. The analysis of this study focuses upon the differences between national and private universities because it is generally known that career support is more frequent at private universities than at national universities. The research shows that peer-support activities for students’ job-hunting started at private universities in early 1990s, and it became increasingly wide spread since around 2003. Moreover, the ratio of practicing institutions is higher among private universities than among national universities. Career centers introduced peer-support activities, hoping that students would be able to avoid anxiety and gather information through the support of their seniors. However, there appear to be some problems: most of the supporters had been recruited individually and it is rare for them to have had proper initial training. Consequently, the actual management of the system largely depends upon the personal merits of those chosen to be supporters. As for the future, we should try to find the way to solve these problems, while at the same time continue efforts to verify the effectiveness of peer-support activities for the sake of supporting students’ job-hunting.