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Effect Of Employment Opportunity On Career Choice Among Employed Youths
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1.5 The Significance of the Study
Many
factors affect career choices of senior high school students.
Identifying these factors would give parents, educators, and industry an
idea as to where students place most of their trust in the career
selection process. It will not only focus on factors influencing career
choice among students in the Alimosho District, but also highlight
career decision making tools that have implications for career
counselling. In addition, it will equally provide an update study into
how intrinsic, extrinsic and interpersonal factors influence career
choice for others who wish to further research into this area of study.
1.6 Scope and Delimitation of Study
The
study focuses on what goes on in the Alimosho District instead of
looking at the country as a whole, hence its application to the country
or larger population may not be reliable.
1.7 Definition of Terms
For the purpose of this study the following operational definitions will be used:
Intrinsic
factors: include interest in the job and personality that satisfies
work. In the broader sense they are basic and essential features which
form part of someone rather than because of his or her association.
Extrinsic
factors: include availability of jobs and how well an occupation pays
or brings benefit. They also include those essential features as a
result of the individual’s associations or consequences.
Interpersonal
factors: include the influence of parents and significant others. It is
concerned or involved relationships between people.
Career: is a pattern of work related to preparations and experiences which is carried through a person’s life.
Job: is a piece of work carried out for a pay.
Work: physical and mental effort directed towards doing something. It is a job in the broader sense.
Youth: is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood
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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---
