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Effect Of Employment Opportunity On Career Choice Among Employed Youths
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It is clear
that work fulfils many important needs and even those who become rich
overnight still work. Since no one particular job satisfies all needs,
the right job can be satisfying in a very special way, and that is why
it is important to think carefully about one’s own wants, needs,
interests and abilities before making a choice. One needs not to joke
about his choice of career. Working should not be just occupying
oneself. O’Toole (1973), cited in (Thio, 1989) opines that
“People
with satisfying jobs have better mental health than those with less
satisfying work. Thus, people who are happy with their jobs also tend to
have better physical health and to live longer. Although diet,
exercise, medical care and genetics are all related to the incidence of
heart disease, job dissatisfaction is more closely linked to the cause
of death.â€
Each individual is faced with choosing among the large
areas of occupational cluster of work. Such as agriculture, business and
office, communication and media, health, hospitality and recreation,
manufacturing, marine science, construction, arts, humanity and
sciences, home economics, marketing and distribution, natural resources
and environment, personal services, public service, and transportation.
Rao
(1992) cited in Kankam & Onivehu (2000) identified two factors that
call for guidance and counselling services or activities in secondary
schools one of which is the making of academic choice that in the end
determines the vocational future. The origin of vocational guidance can
be traced to the United States of America. Educational guidance
originated from the development of vocational guidance services. In 1908
the Vocational Bureau of Boston was formed under the auspices of an
American lawyer and educator; Frank Parsons to assist young men make
vocational choices based on their occupational aptitudes and interest
(Fruehling, 2008). Guidance began to spread as a result of Parsons’
ideas.
Brewer (1942) cited in Archer (1997) put across four
conditions that work together to bring about the beginning and
development of vocational guidance. These are: division of labour, the
growth of technology, the extension of vocational education, and the
spread of modern forms of democracy. The four elements listed above were
however, intensified by the First World War which led to the shortage
of skilled manpower. Though in Ghana vocational/technical can be traced
back to the 19th century when both the Basel and Wesleyan missionaries
made a shift from the initial three R’s - reading, writing and
arithmetic to agricultural and technical curriculum (Hama, 2003),
guidance in Ghana started in 1955 when the Ministry of Labour, Education
and Social Welfare came together and established Youth Employment
Department. Its aim was to cater for the needs of the unemployed middle
school leavers below the age of twenty years. By 1960, there were about
thirty of such centres in the country (Ackummey, 2003).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The researcher set out to investigate factors that influence career choice among the senior high school students in Alimosho senior High school and the extent to which those factors influence students’ choice. Survey design was used. The main instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. Simple random sample techniques was used to select 200 students, and convenient sampling techniques used to select three administrators and three guidance and counselling coordinators for the stu ... Continue reading---
