We conducted pre-graduation semi-structured interviews with foreign students enrolled in a "Japanese for Job Hunting" course as second-year students regarding the relationship between the course content and the students' job-hunting activities and career selection process since taking the course. The eight interviewees were all students from China. The interviews revealed that the students' career selection was greatly influenced by parental assistance related to job-hunting in their home

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... ies; some students could use the course content directly in their own job-hunting but others could not; and some elements of the course were useful for job-hunting in both Japan and China.