Essay On Career Guidance

Despite the wide range of careers for students to choose from, guidance and counselling is still needed to help them choose effectively. In many developed countries, career guidance and counselling is well planned in the entire school system. There are career counselling centers with adequate resources to enable student’s access and use career information independently. This freedom helps students to make sound and informed career decisions. Indeed, self-interest and personality inventories enable students to make self-assessment about their career interests and personality at a very early stage. In many developing countries and sub-Saharan in general and Ghana in particular career guidance and counselling of students at higher education level is very important

Most university students’ career choices in Africa are accidental, imposed by external forces or circumstances. This implies that students are not prepared enough to identify which fields best suit their abilities and interests.
Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to career preparation and development as far as students’ knowledge about prospective employers, possible links and associated challenges are concerned. There is inevitably a need for an inquiry that would explore the status of the provision of career guidance and counselling in Ghanaian universities with a view to recommending the best practices for effective career guidance and counselling services. ANTICIPATED ETHICAL ISSUES
It is anticipated that, the ethics committee of the university, under whose guidance the investigation will be conducted, will approve of the research. The Department of Education as well as the school authorities will give their permission for the research to be conducted.
LITERATURE REVIEW
IMPORTANTANCE OF CAREER