Woosong Language Institute, Woosong University, Daejeon 34514, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Apr 17;17(8):2771. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17082771.
Public health, social work, and psychological counselling professions in South Korea are facing challenges of human resource shortage and shortage of professionals who can provide multilingual services. The purpose of this study was to explore and understand why public health, social work, and psychological counselling services degree graduates and professionals with multilingual skills in South Korea decide to leave their professional field to the hospitality and business industries, particularly for those who completed their initial training at one of the international universities. Based on the approach of the Social Cognitive Career Theory, individuals' self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interests, and goals were examined and considered. The data were collected from 12 participants with the methodology of interpretative phenomenological analysis. The general inductive approach was employed to categorize the themes for reporting. The results indicated that public health, social work, and psychological counselling services-related positions are not available, modelling from peers, and lack of career development skills are the primary difficulties of public health, social work, and psychological counselling services graduates. The completion of this study provides clear recommendations to educators, policymakers, school leaders, human resource planners, and university administrators to improve their curricula and school counselling for public health, social work, and psychological counselling services graduates and the next generation.
韩国的公共卫生、社会工作和心理咨询专业面临着人力资源短缺以及能够提供多语种服务的专业人员短缺的挑战。本研究旨在探讨和了解为什么韩国拥有多语种技能的公共卫生、社会工作和心理咨询服务学位毕业生和专业人员决定离开他们的专业领域进入酒店和商业行业，特别是对于那些在国际大学之一完成初始培训的人。基于社会认知职业理论的方法，考察并考虑了个人的自我效能感、结果预期、兴趣和目标。研究数据来自 12 名参与者，采用解释现象学分析方法进行收集。采用一般归纳方法对主题进行分类报告。结果表明，公共卫生、社会工作和心理咨询服务相关职位空缺、同辈榜样以及缺乏职业发展技能是公共卫生、社会工作和心理咨询服务专业毕业生面临的主要困难。本研究为教育工作者、政策制定者、学校领导、人力资源规划者和大学管理人员提供了明确的建议，以改善公共卫生、社会工作和心理咨询服务专业毕业生和下一代的课程和学校咨询。
