The purpose of this study was to determine how the experience of a career transition would develop career adaptability, a psychological resource for adapting to the next transition, with a focus on time consciousness. A scale for meaning making of career transitions was constructed from preliminary research, and together with existing scales, a survey of employed individuals was conducted to examine the relations among the variables. Results showed, first, that meaning making of career transitions had three factors. Second, they had positive effects on future and present consciousness and positive effects on career adaptability. Future and present consciousness also had positive effects on career adaptability. These results indicated that the meaning making of career transitions had positive effects on career adaptability both through time consciousness and directly.