Career Choice: the Problem of Career Selection

Career plays a very fundamental and significant role in the life of individual and society. It determine the pattern of income distribution among individuals and also affect the individual personality and concepts in life. Career is therefore a choice of life pursuit, life work or success in one's profession occupied by a person throughout his or her lifetime. The views of Okorodudu shows that career is the totality of experience through which one learns about and prepares to engage in work as part of his way of living. This is an essay about career choice where will be an attempt to reveal this topic. 

James had observed that the influence parents, guardians and the home front has on the child's learning is strictly fundamental to the concept of life. This thus suggest that most of the habits are basically developed at home and thus can be adjusted were established during the early childhood pre-school years. This also highlights the fact that the home front and parents occupies the most important position in the child's education. Adelusi had posited that parents and guardians could be a motivating or inhibiting factor to the career choice of their children especially when it is clear that the home is the first social group in which the child comes in contact with parents who are the most influential determinants of career plans, aspirations and occupational expectations of their wards or children.

The problem of career selection has rouses a lot of questions and answers among scholars. The problem has been a delicate issue and amounted to serious controversies which still remains unresolved and needs to be treated with most caution. There is no clear process that students have used to make career choices. Most of the students rely heavily on their parents or guardians, mentors or idols to make career choices and which are been significantly influenced. Most of the students are easily cajoled by their parents in the choice of a life career which at the long run may not greet them with their expectations, thus giving out a life ambition or career or aspirations.Thus, many parents may desire what they think will be good and best for their wards. But often times they don't take their wards natural abilities and other potentials, other factors into consideration before forcefully pursuing and choosing their selected career for their wards.

To conclude, the process of making a choice is complex and unique for each individual depending on cognitive factors and social structures of the individual's milieu. A career choice is a decision that most human beings make sometime in their lives; it is a decision that should be carefully considered since it can affect the rest of a person's life. Therefore, the goal of career guidance and counselling is to allow an individual to explore his or her options. Some children from the specific type of career indoctrination often fail to achieve their goals while only a handful live to accomplish the desires of their parents in terms of their wishes.