Factors Affecting Career Choice of College Students
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Factors in Career Choice 1 PROBLEM STATEMENT 2 OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH STUDY 2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 3 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY 3 ASSUMPTIONS 4 LITERATURE REVIEW 4 Environment 4 Opportunities 5 Personality 6 DELIMINATIONS 7 HYPOTHESIS 8 POPULATION 8 SAMPLE AND RESPONSE RATE 8 DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUMENTATION 8 DATA COLLECTION 9 DATA ANALYSIS 9 REFRENCES 10
ABSTRACT
Many factors affect career choices of college 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 would also allow students to examine processes they use for career selection. The literature review has provided recommended models in career choices. The review of the literature shows that three areas of a student’s life affect the career choices they make: environment, opportunity, and personality. All three play varying roles in career outcomes.
INTRODUCTION
Career selection is one of many important choices students will make in determining future plans. This decision will impact them throughout their lives. The essence of who the student is will revolve around what the student wants to do with their life-long work. Every student carries the unique history of their past and this determines how they view the world. That history created, in part by the student’s environment, personality, and opportunity, will determine how students make career choices. It then follows that how the student perceives their environment, personality and opportunity also will determine the career choices students make.
Factors in Career Choice
The first factor in career choice, environment may influence the career students choose. For example, students who have lived on an island may choose a career dealing with the water, or they may choose to leave the island behind, never to have anything to do with water again.
ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Factors in Career Choice 1 PROBLEM STATEMENT 2 OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH STUDY 2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 3 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY 3 ASSUMPTIONS 4 LITERATURE REVIEW 4 Environment 4 Opportunities 5 Personality 6 DELIMINATIONS 7 HYPOTHESIS 8 POPULATION 8 SAMPLE AND RESPONSE RATE 8 DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUMENTATION 8 DATA COLLECTION 9 DATA ANALYSIS 9 REFRENCES 10
ABSTRACT
Many factors affect career choices of college 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 would also allow students to examine processes they use for career selection. The literature review has provided recommended models in career choices. The review of the literature shows that three areas of a student’s life affect the career choices they make: environment, opportunity, and personality. All three play varying roles in career outcomes.
INTRODUCTION
Career selection is one of many important choices students will make in determining future plans. This decision will impact them throughout their lives. The essence of who the student is will revolve around what the student wants to do with their life-long work. Every student carries the unique history of their past and this determines how they view the world. That history created, in part by the student’s environment, personality, and opportunity, will determine how students make career choices. It then follows that how the student perceives their environment, personality and opportunity also will determine the career choices students make.
Factors in Career Choice
The first factor in career choice, environment may influence the career students choose. For example, students who have lived on an island may choose a career dealing with the water, or they may choose to leave the island behind, never to have anything to do with water again.