The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on career consciousness. Career consciousness was defined as a combination of Professionalism Preference and Career Readiness, and the influence of the pandemic was assessed in terms of Perceived Vulnerability to Disease and Economic Anxiety. A survey of 158 university students was conducted and the results suggest that the pandemic led to an increase in working autonomously to avoid contact with others due to the perceived threat of infection, and career concern in one’s own career compared to before the pandemic. In addition, there was no significant influence of economic anxiety on career consciousness, suggesting that career consciousness is relatively resistant to the effects of economic anxiety caused by the pandemic.