Abstract

The Cognitive Information Processing approach(CIP), which has been recently one of the influential career counseling theories, is an attempt to overcome the shortcomings of the stative career counseling and to present a comprehensive model that bridges a gap between the theory of counseling and its practice with the purpose of helping an individual to solve his or her career problems and obtain an effective decision-making. This paper is devoted to investigating whether CIP which is based on problem-solving and decision-makings useful not only for the process of college students' making decisions concerning their careers, but for achieving the goal of their getting a job. For this purpose, we will survey CIP first. Second, we will discuss how CIP has been applied to career counseling by reviewing the previous studies of CIP. Finally, we will also discuss the applicability of CIP from the perspective of career counseling for college students, and, in addition, we will come up with some proposals of the applications of CIP as a career counseling model for college students in Korea. Based on what will be discussed in this paper, we anticipate that the present study can present significant information about theory and practice of career counseling, so that counselors who assist college students in being efficient career problem solvers and decision-makers can offer an effective counseling.