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Effect Of Guidance And Counselling Among Senior Secondary School Students In Their Choice Of Career
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The dislike of ones job is a
wide spread of job dissatisfaction and frustration in Nigeria today.
The feeling of frustration is even sharper, if it has taken years of
study and experience to became a trained practitioner and if it is
apparent that more years will have to spent (at lower pay) in order to
change to another job.
Most often, people wish that they
could have chosen differently. If such people had possessed greater
insight into the possibilities open or available to them, it is very
likely that they would have made a totally different choice.
There are some factors needs to be considered when making a choice of career
i. Interest of the choice maker
ii. Intelligence of the choice maker
iii. Aptitude and talent of the choice maker
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The interest as to do with the interest that the choice maker has
towards the particular course, since interest is what a person is fond
of doing above others as it appeals to one’s mind. Therefore, it is
necessary to put into consideration the interest of the students on a
particular subjects combinations before choosing it.
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Intelligence: The intelligent of the student also is very important. For
instance, a student that is intelligent in the area of Mathematics,
Chemistry and Physics want to read law in the higher institution prone
to encounter difficulties on his way because he needs English language
and Government as the most subjects combined for law course.
Intellectual ability remains a significant factor in educational and
occupational choices.
In the choice of subjects that
leads to specific occupations, the students should seek the assistance
of a counsellor to guide them in their choices.
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Aptitude and talent of the choice maker: Aptitude is an inborn ability
to be able to profit from a course of instruction.
Aptitude and talent are closely related. Talents refers to that inmate
inability which make a person perform a specific task without making a
conscious effort. A person who shows interest aptitude and talent for a
career is likely derived job satisfaction.
1.2.1 Purpose of Choosing Career
- To make the students prepare and be aware of the specific tasks of their choices.
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To directs students in cultivating proper attitudes and skills needed
to function in the society particularly in the world of work.
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To enable students to prepare and develop awareness of the time and
money required of a person be trained and educated for specific career.
1.3 Background of the Study
Most students in senior secondary schools find it difficult to choose
correctly the subject combinations in their final exams (WAEC/NECO)
which determines their future choice of career.
The
crucial decisions made may become very difficult to reverse, if wrong
choices are make, it will affect the future life of the students career.
With the existence of guidance and counselling in the secondary
schools, it will really help students in choosing their subject
combinations which will enable them to be happy in their future career.
In Nigeria, guidance and counselling was introduced with the aim of
directing, helping, assisting those choosing vocational occupation job,
placement, employment opportunities and advancement.
The
Federal Government included the offering of guidance and counselling
courses in the university curriculum both at the post-graduate and
undergraduate programme, now some colleges of education offer courses in
guidance and counselling. This become compulsory course in the teachers
curriculum in tertiary institutions that train teachers, with the aim
of making young men and women teachers in training to understand human
behaviour from the psychological perspective and the factors that are
responsible for the changes in that behaviour.
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