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Family, School, and Community Culture

You primarily interact with your family as well as with the people from your school and community. Through your interactions, you learn to appreciate and view career options in relation to the perspectives of your social relationships.

Economic Factors

Practicability and good-paying jobs also drive students towards a specific career path. Not all students are well-off, thus a good education and a good career choice are used by many students in order to overcome financial hardships or poverty.

Personality Factors

Personal qualities and interests also play a role in choosing your career. For instance, to assess your interest based on personality types, Holland's Career Typology is widely used all over the world.

Socio-demographic Factors

Gender and location are also important factors in choosing a career. While no job is limited by gender, some people and companies would still stereotype people based on their genders.

Out migration

is a phenomenon when young professionals choose to move out from their rural environments in order to take in more career opportunities in more urbanized locations.

Self-Awareness

The first stage of choosing a career is _____. pertains to your ability and capacity to recognize and acknowledge your skills, values, interests, personality, strengths and areas for improvement. Being able to be aware of these facets of the self is important to your success.

Opportunity Awareness

This stage of choosing a career pertains to the process of accumulating information about the possible opportunities such as availability of jobs, information of the degree or subject, possible post-graduate opportunities, areas of specialization and job responsibilities that can be available for you in a selected field.

Decision Making

This stage of choosing a career pertains to the development of your decision. this stage refers to the consultation with family, peers, school counsellors and others. One can also weigh down the pros and cons in pursuing other options.

Taking Action

The final process of choosing a career is taking action which is usually done at the latter stage of your study. This implies on finding available employers and job position possibilities. Another part of this stage is creating applications and attending interviews. Since this process implies that you are ready to enter the professional world, one possibility to improve