认知信息加工理论强调从信息加工的取向看待职业决策问题，即准确“认知”到生涯选择的内涵是增进求职者职业选择能力的关键。通过对大学生职业决策的基本状态进行研究，采用因子分析法将大学生职业决策困难的影响因素凝练为“准备不足”“信息匮乏”以及“情感因素”三个方面，并从知识领域、决策技能领域和执行加工领域三个层面提出相应对策。

The Cognitive Information Processing Theory emphasizes that career decision-making is viewed from the perspective of information processing, which means the key to improve the job-seeker's ability of career choice is the connotation from accurate "cognition" to career choice. By studying the basic state of college students' career decision-making, through factor analysis, the factors creating college students' career decision-making difficulties are condensed into three aspects: "inadequate preparation", "lack of information" and "emotional factors". Countermeasures are put forward from three aspects: the knowledge domain, the decision-making skill domain, and the execution processing domain.