Career Guidance and Digital Induction

Thomas Staunton

doi:10.16993/njtcg.73

Career Guidance and Digital Induction

Nordic Journal of Transitions, Careers and Guidance

Volume 6 (2025): Issue 1

By: Thomas Staunton

Open Access

|Mar 2025

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore the process through which higher education students in the U.K. are inducted into using digital platforms for their careers. This paper will present data from a longitudinal study looking at how students use digital social media platforms as part of their career transitions after graduating. A key finding from this study is that the university plays a central role in why and how students start using digital platforms for their career. Qualitative data was gathered from students both before and after graduating about their experiences of using digital platforms for their careers. This data was analysed using an interpretative phenomenological analysis. The themes developed from this pointed to four main themes: induction, hybridity, imaginations and exposure to e-safety. This is contextualised through exploring this process as an example of the platformisation of career in a higher education context.

Abstrakti

Tämän artikkelin tarkoitus on tarkastella prosessia, jonka kautta Britannian korkeakouluopiskelijat perehdytetään käyttämään digitaalisia alustoja urasuunnittelussaan. Artikkeli esittelee aineiston pitkittäistutkimuksesta, jonka aiheena on miten opiskelijat käyttävät digitaalisia sosiaalisen median alustoja osana valmistumisen jälkeisiä urasiirtymiä. Keskeinen tulos tästä tutkimuksesta on, että yliopistolla on keskeinen rooli siinä miksi ja miten opiskelijat alkavat käyttää digitaalisia alustoja osana urasuunnitteluaan. Opiskelijoiden keskuudesta kerättiin laadullista aineistoa sekä ennen että jälkeen valmistumisen koskien heidän kokemuksiaan urasuunnitteluun liittyvistä digitaalisista alustoista. Tämä aineisto analysoitiin tulkitsevan fenomenologisen analyysin avulla. Analyysin perusteella aineistosta erotettiin neljä pääteemaa: perehdytys, hybriditeetti, ennakkouskomukset sekä digitaalinen turvallisuus. Nämä pääteemat kontekstualisoitiin tarkastelemalla opiskelijoiden prosessia esimerkkinä uran nivoutumisesta alustoihin korkeakoulukontekstissa.

Asiasanat: urasuunnittelu; uraohjaus; digitalisuus; korkea-aste

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