Moving Past Utilization

Understanding Proactive Career Behaviors and Satisfaction with Career Services

Abstract

This study examined the impact of proactive career behavior on career readiness and career goal attainment among college students. It was hypothesized that students who engage in career interventions possess higher levels of proactive career behaviors. In addition, inferential statistics were used to discover if a higher degree of career engagement correlated with students’ perceptions of career interventions, their impact on career readiness and career goal attainment, and satisfaction with services. Results highlight students’ self-reported engagement in proactive career behaviors and uncovered an unexpected outcome - differing levels of engagement in internal versus external behaviors.