FACTORS

INFLUENCING
STUDENTS
CAREER CHOICE

Inahog, Vereen
Cruz, Kirsten
Macanang, Fernando
 CHAPTER I

Introduction:
 Background of Study
 Statement of Problem
 General
 Specific
 Significance of the Study
 Scope and Delimitation
 Definition of Terms
 Chapter I

Introduction

Background of the Study

The right career choice for the students entering the professional education is critical

having high impact on their professional life and future achievement. This is the turning point: it

cannot be left, on intuition, preconceived notions, wild imaginations or popular concepts. A

misperceived career choice directs all individual efforts and resources into wrong direction,

when not aligned with the expectations; would not only be frustrating rather draining of the

individual energy and wastage of resources. The re-alignment is possible, but it has serious

implications in terms of time, money and motivation. The career choice of the students must

need to be based on; strong knowledge, complete information, and appropriately guided,

matching individual personality type and other intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The students need

to be oriented on new emerging trends, future opportunities and challenges in the context of

career choice options. They need to know the prevalent market trends and practices and job

scenario of various sectors.

This study is focused on students enrolled in College of Business Entrepreneurship and

Accountancy: the courses which are offered to students are BSBA, BSACT, BSACC, BSLM

and BSENT. They obtained degree in Business Administration with major courses in marketing

and financial management, accounting technology, accountancy, legal management and

entrepreneurship. However, their career choice for selection of the particular specialization

needs to be based on complete information and market place practices. The universities have the

student counselling department where the career guidelines are provided to the students to help
them understand the various disciplines and select the one that matches their aspirations, interest

and personality type. The success of the young leaders in their career endeavours depends on the

alignment of their career choice with their interest and personal preferences.

Choice of career is standout amongst the most noteworthy determinations for business

students that will be supportive to them in their future thoughts. The significance of picking a

specialization in Administration and any courses accessible is a key and essential part for each

business student as it will be the building pieces of achievement later on. When we think about

career choice, several things immediately come to mind- job description, training and education

required, career outlook, and salary- but there are a number of other factors that may influence

your decisions. We came up with this study to be able to investigate the factors that influence the

career selection choice of the students and create a possible alignment between their preferences

and the institutions curriculum and offerings.

Statement of Problem

There are many factors that influence career choice. Those factors are important since they

contribute to the final choice made by the learner on his or her career. Students need to make

informed decisions about their careers. If wrong choices are made from the beginning it is highly

unlikely that a learner would be satisfied with their career path.

General

To determine the factors that influencing career choice of the business student like in

their interest in the subject, future job opportunities, financial outcome and ease of the subject.
Specific

To determine and to find out whether there are any relationship between career choice

and the profile of the student such as age, family background, gender and course.

Significance of Study

Education is the totality of learning acquired by individual which is inherited from one

generation to another, while career is serving as its application. The collaboration of these two

fields plays a key in improving individual’s competence and professionalism and serves as their

personal achievement.

Therefore, this study is deemed significant to the following stakeholder for the following

reasons:

 Students - the respondents are the centre of the research because ultimately they develop

the awareness of themselves, strength and weaknesses for their career development by

continually summarizing and reflecting upon what they are learning from home, school,

and community. In totality, students are in charge of their own choice.

 Parents - In this study, parents will realize how important they are as a source of

encouragement in which children are free to explore different areas of career preferences.

This study will look forward in giving their children an assurance to acquire quality

education that would enable them to obtain a better job, better income and brighter

future.

 School Administration - The result of this study will help the school administration in

putting up an effective, integrated career information and guidance system that plays a

very helpful role in guiding students towards making the best possible career decisions.
  Researcher - the process and outcome of this study will produce a great satisfaction,

competence and professionalism to the field.

Scope and Delimitation

The scope of the research study is focused on the students enrolled in Business institutes

in Cagayan State University. They yet must pass through the process of making their career

choices by selecting the specialized area within business discipline. This study would have a

more prominent position for the master students to get themselves prepared and to sort out other

than occupation, the linkage with the experts involved in business firms arranging and planning

endeavours for the fresh business graduates to help them in correct career choice.

This study will be survey with the help of different business institutes. The present study

is limited in scope of time span and sample size. Particularly, the study focuses only on business

students in the said university. Thus, the findings of the study have limited generalizability.
Definition of terms

The following terms are defined conceptually or operationally for the better

understanding of the study:

1. Career - refers to the field of study undertaken by students for their occupation.

2. Interest in the subject - Personal liking of an individual towards particular subjects.

3. Future Job Opportunities - refers to the majority of present occupation which many

companies are in need for a particular job.

4. Financial outcomes - result of a monetary in where it spend or used.

5. Job description – statement that tells the explanation of the given work.

6. Ease of the subject – state the simplicity of the topic.

7. Career outlook – set of condition where the job probably exist in the future.

8. Choice – opportunity or power to choose between two or more possibilities.

9. Professional – relating to a job that requires special education, training, or skill.

10. Curriculum – courses that are taught by a school.