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The cognitive and attitudinal factors to influence the hospitality majored students’ career engagement need to be figured out because of the importance for real career development. Focused on the hospitality majored students, this study has been undertaken to examine whether holistic thinking influences career engagement mediated through career goal commitment. Holistic thinking includes lower variables of causality, attitude toward contradictions, perception of change, and locus of attention. The number of 249 cases was used for final analysis out of 260 cases surveyed. The results were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicate the hospitality majored students’ causality, perception, and locus of attention make positively significant impact on their career goal commitment whereas contradiction to change fails to make the impact. Also, career goal commitment positively influences career engagement. In addition, locus of attention directly influences career engagement whereas the other three lower variables fail to make it. Finally, career goal commitment partially mediate the relationship between holistic thinking and career engagement. Based on these results, applying education paradigm of holistic thinking to the hospitality majored students has been suggested to help them to make proactive career engagement.