Personal Interest And Career Choice Case Study

5.2.3 To examine the relationship between personal interest and career choice

The third objective of this study is to examine the relationship between personal interest (i.e., realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional) and career choice. Based on Table 4.6 it show that Realistic (β = .349, p < .050) was significantly correlated with career choice.This is contrast to the study done by Onoyase and Onoyase (2009). In their study the result show that there is no significant relationship between realistic and career choice. Realistic student is the person who prefer physical activities that require skill, strength and coordination. Therefore, as a result, this type of student will choose a career based on skill and
Therefore, it shows that conventional traits can influence career choice among student. This finding is in-line to study done by Onoyase and Onoyase (2009). Student who has conventional interest type is the student who has a clear view of a situation. According to Mao (2013), individual who make plans and more steadily towards the future could generate better choice. So, once they had make up their mind, they will not change the decision. Hence, if they already had the career planning or the career that they really want, they will work hard to achieve
Based on the finding in this study this type of interest does not influence career choice because students nowadays are reserved. One of the possible reason why the finding show that no relation between enterprising interest type and career choice may be due to the gender of the respondent. Most of the respondents in this study are female students. According to Chemeli (2013), male student are more exposed to socialize either at home or in the society so they more brave to be