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The purpose of this study is to develop the happenstance scale for measuring accidental events experienced during career choice process for university students and to explore the career - related behaviors by happenstance factors. For the purpose, A total of 1,563 university students responded the survey packet. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the construct of career choice happenstance comes to consist of 4 factors(individual/around situation, information discovery, system change, others influence). Second, as a result of examining the relationship between the career choice happenstance and the career - related variables, the individual/around situation was negatively correlated with career - related variables. However, the information discovery and others influence showed a significant positive correlation with all sub - factors of career - related variables, but the system change did not show a statistically correlation. Therefore, it is confirmed that there is a certain pattern between career choice happenstance and career - related variables. Implication including the utility of the scale and limitation of the study were discussed with some suggestions for the future researches and practices.