Counseling Students on Choice of Careers in Professional Areas in Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt: Implication for Counselling

Abstract

The study investigated final year students of Faculty of Technical and Science Education and third year students of Faculty of Sciences choice of career in 2011/2012 academic session in Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt. The instrument used for data collection was a self designed questionnaire administered on 260 student, 130 subjects from the Faculty of Technical and Science Education and 130 subjects from the Faculty of Sciences. Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt. Survey design was utilized, t-test statistics was used to test the three null hypothesis at 0 05 level of significance. Results showed that hypotheses one and three were not significant at 0.05 level of significance, hence they were accepted. Hypothesis two was significant at 005 level of significance, it was therefore rejected. The implications of the findings were also discussed.

Keywords: Counselling, career choice, Professional areas.