Description

For the last two decades, career guidance and counselling has matured from ad hoc classroom efforts via Civics and Moral Education lessons, to a structured curriculum comprising a multitude of classroom and experiential activities. Earlier local studies focused on identifying the level and predictors of the affective, behavioural and cognitive aspects of the career development of adolescents. In view of the vast changes that have occurred in both the education system and the importance accorded to career guidance and counselling, this study involving junior college and polytechnic students aimed to investigate a sample that has to date, not been studied. The transition from secondary school to a post-secondary institute of study such as junior college or polytechnic, is a crucial one which involves great deliberation because it is a major educational decision. Such a decision would depend on how much and how well the adolescent has done in terms of career planning and exploration; what is his or her knowledge of the world of work, and career decision-making ability.