The concept that forms the starting point for careers education at this university is finding "the path to living in a way that is true to yourself."
Starting this process early will help you to find a job that satisfies you.

• Comprehensive careers support
  There are two faculty members, providing comprehensive education and guidance, including lectures and counseling.
• Practical careers support
  Making use of their experience in personnel, hiring, education, and overseas business gained during many years of working at private sector companies, the faculty members and the Career Advisor also provide helpful hints concerning career paths and job-seeking from the perspective of companies.
  The Career Center has a full range of information, equipment, and staff to help you find the right career for you.
• Early careers support
  Students can access guidance concerning their career path at any time, starting from their first year. Each faculty works in partnership with the Center to provide finely-tuned guidance.
  If you start early, you'll have more time to contemplate your future way of life.

• Orientation at the start of the academic year: Career Design Guide
• Careers lectures as part of the general education seminar course
• Careers education as a subject in the liberal arts education program (realm-based subject: Careers Education)
  Selecting an Occupation and Self-actualization: Design Your Own Career
  Introduction to Career Design
• Career development support lectures tailored to each school, institute or faculty
• Careers seminars
• Internships
• Other extracurricular courses (such as bookkeeping and preparation for the civil servant examinations) undertaken in collaboration with the Hiroshima University Co-op

• Compilation and distribution of employment support materials
• Guidance for finding employment
• Seminars on specific sectors and companies
• Provision of information about companies and job vacancies, etc.

Thinking about your career means thinking about your way of life. We will support you in thinking about your way of life by choosing a career path and occupation that you will find satisfying.

Selecting an Occupation and Self-actualization: Design Your Own Career
Introduction to Career Design

This is a realm-based subject (Careers Education) that forms part of the liberal arts education program for students, starting in their first year.
Two credits each can be obtained in the first and second semesters.
This provides a forum in which you can think about what to study at university in order to live in a way that is true to yourself and how to live your life at university, as well as starting to design your career.
Featuring various practical exercises, this course will also help to nurture your ability to express yourself, the ability to think logically, and the ability to solve problems.

Based on their experience of having worked in personnel, hiring, education, and overseas business at private sector companies, the faculty members teaching this course aim to achieve a balance between the theory and practice of career design.

The careers team also provides individual career counseling for students who are struggling to decide on a career path, such as those who have developed an interest in a different major from their current one in the course of their university studies and are wondering whether to progress to studying that field.
 Staff members will work with you to carefully consider what you can do and what you want to do, in order to enable you to identify a satisfying career path.

Moreover, the Career Advisor, who has lengthy experience of working for private sector companies, provides counseling to enable you to find the kind of employment that you want, regarding such matters as how to undertake job-seeking activities, the content required in application documents, and interview tips.

We believe that, when thinking about your career path or occupation, there are many useful pointers that you can gain from listening to the stories of people familiar to you, such as your friends and more senior students.
At the Hiroshima University Career Center, we hold company seminars and joint career seminars, at which human resources staff from companies talk about jobs and companies, and the sense of satisfaction to be gained from work, as well as responding to individual questions.　

We hope that you will participate, in order to gain insights that will be a useful point of reference when thinking about your own way of life.

Hiroshima University actively promotes internship initiatives, with the aim of providing target-focused education. 
At the Career Center, we run Hiroshima University's own internship program.
The Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Applied Biological Science have their own specific programs, so we recommend that students in those faculties participate in those programs.
Moreover, we post information about internships on the website and provide training before and afterwards.

Having a goal, formulating a proper plan, and actively taking part is the key to really getting something out of an internship.
Do make active use of this program, in order to assist in selecting an occupation and achieve success in finding employment.