Abstract:

With the employment market situation becoming increasingly severe，employment promotion has become widely concerned social issue，and vocational guidance is getting increasingly important and urgent. This paper，based on 837 articles about career guidance from core journals，tries to probe into the potential hot spots for future vocational guidance studies by means of high frequency key words analysis，cluster analysis，factor analysis and social network analysis. And the study finds that the current vocational guidance researches focus on studies on vocational guidance theories at home and abroad，on vocational guidance practice，multidisciplinary theory about vocational guidance，and on entrepreneurship education and guidance. The future trend of vocational guidance researches may include career education in primary and middle schools，revolution and innovation of vocational guidance patterns，the emphasis of employee-ability and employment-quality，vocational guidance in secondary vocational schools，and specialization of vocational guidance.

Key words: vocational guidance, Co-word matrix, cluster analysis, social network analysis, employee-ability, employmentquality