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Web based career guiding applications have emerged as a new means of organized skill training, knowledge acquisition and career decision making. Most current career guiding applications operate on assumptions of individual capacity to make career decisions and implement a guided process which encompasses two general phases: 1. personality and skill assessment; 2. job recommendations based on assessment result. In this paper, we turn to Pierre Bourdieu’s thinking of social, economic and cultural capital to highlight deficiencies in the current career guiding applications. We then discuss a new embedded approach to the design of career guiding application which re-situates individual career decision-making in the real life contexts and brings the non-linear and disruptive nature of career decision-making into the spotlight. Design guidelines illustrating the important characteristics of this new approach will also be presented.
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Guo, H. (2015). Competing in Cultural Arena: New Design of Career Guiding Application. In: Chen, G., Kumar, V., Kinshuk, ., Huang, R., Kong, S. (eds) Emerging Issues in Smart Learning. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44188-6_15
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