Utilization of Facebook in University Student's Career Education Based on a Job Hunting Process under the Japanese Employment Practice

In Japan, the feature of the employment of labor is characteristic, which derives from unique custom and practice of the employment of Japanese companies. As a result, the vocational education has not been done at the university for a long time. In recent years, however, the necessity of the vocational education at the university is pointed out. But this vocational education in Japan is a little different from that in other countries. It is called "the carrier education". Many students are trained in this "the carrier education" for their job-hunting process, and they obtain technical skills and knowledges to pass a company entrance examination or oral interview at the universities in these days. Contrary to this, intrinsically meaningful vocational/carrier education is that students acquire the abilities which correspond to industrial requirement autonomously. At Hokkai-Gakuen University Faculty of Business Administration, the purpose of the vocational/carrier education program is to foster independence in students rather than to acquire skill in job-hunting process. We think the autonomy of every student is very important to carrier-formation after graduating from the university. And in a process to improve independence of their will, we have found that utilization of Facebook is very useful and effective.