Abstract: Career counseling is an upgrade from the vocational guidance, however there is a clear paradigm shift in the evolution of the vocational guidance to the career counseling. Compared with the vocational guidance, the career counseling primarily demonstrates the following characteristics: 1) researchers fully understand the chaos characteristics of career development; 2) great importance is attached to the individual's unique life experience, opportunities for self-construction, and the impact of attractors on career development; 3) the concept of career counseling has a big change, no longer pursuing a rigid control, instead of emphasizing continuous learning and adaptation; 4) with special emphasis on career "meta-competencies"; 5) at consulting practice, counseling techniques, such as information type, rational decision-making style, and narrative approach, are comprehensively applied.