Section of Student Career Support

Overview

The Section of Student Career Support is based on the Section of Career Designing Services that was established in the Division of Student Affairs, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education in 2006. In 2014, it was recreated as a section of the Division of Higher Education when the Institute for Excellence in Higher Education was established.

 

As our social and economic environment undergoes change, the career paths that students desire are growing more complex. In light of such circumstances, this section carries out surveys, research, and program development related to careers and support for career development. The aim is to further enhance and develop various support schemes for students’ career development.

From an educational viewpoint, it provides not only career education classes as part of liberal education in the regular course of study but also various career planning and placement support programs, individual counseling, and other activities for students across the entire university outside of their regular course of study. It continuously utilizes the results of surveys, research, and program development to improve these educational activities.

 

In addition, by planning and implementing in cooperation with each department a program which utilizes the characteristics of each department’s education and career path, it strives to develop an environment providing equal access to career-path and employment information to students at all campuses.

 

Initiatives of Research and Educational Activities

1. Surveys, research, and development related to careers and support for career development. With enhancement and development of various support schemes for students’ career development as one of its purposes, this section participates in the implementation and analyses of surveys for current students, graduates, employers, and all other concerned parties. Part of these results is reflected in the support programs. In addition, it continues with initiatives for the improvement of career development support programs at our university, while continuously conducting surveys and research on the change in environment when finding and starting employment, as well as maintaining links with those in charge of career education and support in other universities. 

 

2. Planning and implementation of career education, career planning and placement support programs 

(i) Education as part of the regular course of study. Responsible for liberal education classes such as “Career Design,” “Society and College Students,” “[Advanced Seminar] Journalism and Human Society,” and “[Advanced Seminar] Opening up Tohoku’s Future through the New.” 

(ii) Education outside the regular course of study. Development and implementation of various guidance seminars hosted by the Center for Career Support, implementation of individual counseling on career-paths, employment, and other activities. 

 

3. Cooperation with each department and provision of information on career-paths and employment. This section not only attempts to enhance further cooperation and collaboration with each department through the special committee on career support but also dispatches lecturers to the students’ career support programs in each department. It also publishes the “Tohoku University Career and Employment Guide” that provides reference information for career-path selection, and strives to reduce any gaps among campuses in available information on career-paths and employment through the use of websites and other means.

 

Faculty members

Chair of Section     Professor             

Toshiyuki Inomata
(Educational Sociology)
  Senior Assistant Professor

Yukiko MOMMA
(Human resource development)

 

Location

41, Kawauchi, Aobaku, Sendai, 980-8576, Japan

(Kawakita Joint Building)