ANALYSIS OF FACTORS THAT DETERMINE CAREER CHOICE AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF KANO METROPOLIS

Abstract

ABSTRACT Career guidance is a planned assistance to students, in developing goals and choices related to their educational and vocational future. It creates understanding of the many problems that confront students in their immediate and long term planning and also helps them to determine means of overcoming them. This survey investigates the factors, like career counseling, family background and environment that influence career aspiration among female students in senior secondary schools within SabonGari, Kano metropolis. Four (4) research questions guided the study. Data were obtained through questionnaire distributed to 100 female students selected randomly from five (5) schools within the study area. It was observed that the greatest influencer of female students’ career choices is guidance and counseling services in their schools (56%) while parental influence is second with 37%. Environmental and peer factors is third with 7%. It was also discovered that literate parents tend to impose particular career on their children for various reasons, while less literate parents attach values to other areas of life which invariably prevent their children from aspiring for certain occupation. It is therefore recommended among others that the role of professional counselors in schools should be strengthened. Also parents, through the instrumentality of Parents Teachers’ Associations, should be enlightened in order to enable them positively influence their children career choices.

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