INTRODUCTION

Backgroun of the study

Career play a very fundamental and significant role in the

life of the individual not only because they determine the pattern

of income but also because they affect the individual personality

and concepts in life career therefore is a choose pursuit life work

or success in one's profession occupied by a person throughout

his/her lifetime. In a nutshell career is the totality of work one

does in his life time and is person centred. It is of utmost

importance to every individual as he or she prepares for the

future .[Mayer 2007]

Career choice is something very hard to decide especially as

his life will depend on it. Her (2003) indicated that career is the

totality of experience through which one learns about and

prepares to engage in work as part of his way of living. Splete

(2001) Stress that career is an enjoying process that occurs over

the life span and includes homes schools and community. Every

human being needs to do one job or the other to help contribute

his quote to the development of the country.

Ipaye (2000) refers to the need for one to discuss with one's

peer school counsellors parents and teachers on the need to

choose a life span work as “career convention” or “career

conference”. However career convention according to him is an

instrument of career information. This occurs for a number of

reasons which includes:

1. To stimulate career thinking and widen occupational

horizon.

2. To focus attention on particular jobs in order to help an

individual crystallizes his preference.

3. To create a situation in which parents can on one hand

meet employers and discuss the opportunities they offer

and on the other hand meet the career teachers or career

officers with whom they can exchange views.

Work experience during industrial training or those experiences

acquired during vocational education also aids the students in

choice of career. This is a techniques in which students do job

under realistic conditions without payment this may help them

choose a career to that effect.

James (2004) Observes that the influence home has on the

child's learning is the fundamental concepts of life. This cause

and most of the habits and basic adjustment were established

during pre-school years. The highlights the fact that home and

parents occupy the most important position in the child’s

education. It should be stressed that work experience is not an

attempt to find job for the students but an attempt to widen the

horizons of students and ease the ultimate transition from school

to work. This is usually based on the information given to the

school by the parents such guidance and information are

necessary because most school children are adolescents and are

controlled by double standards hypocrisy truancy materialism

dishonesty etc.

The factor that may influence choice of career includes.

- Socio-economic factors

- Personal or family factors

- Cultural factors which include schools peer group age and

work experience. Parental influence on choice of career has

both negative and positive effect. This is due to the following

factors

- No usual hazards to health

- Assured steady income

- Certainty of continued employment

- Career or occupational satisfaction

- Prestige

- Social rewards.

To increase students interest and ability to use his hands

and brains the parents must be involved to give desired

assistance/guidance to the students.

Statement of the problem

This research is based on parental influences on the choice

of career.

This may affect the child positively if the child can cope with

it but negatively when such a child has other things in mind

which he/she wishes to do. The result of this is that the child may

not concentrate on the parents needs and so may not adjust

positively towards the career. This sometimes leads to students

waywardness secrete cult involvement armed robbery and so

on. The child may not cope with the parents continual force

against his/her will.

The world is marking such drastic demand upon the coming

workers every truthful man and woman every teaches and

reflecting parents is planning way to fit the students for the life

and needs of this new century. This statement which is still

relevant today was written by Mejer Bloomfield in his book

‘finding ones place in life in (2007) since the early 2000 career

development or vocational guidance as it was then

known has increasingly gained more and more attention and

respect in essence career counselling is a specialty within the

profession of counselling one that fosters vocationally

development and work adjustment of individual abilities interest

and goals with the work roles structured by the community and

occupation organised by companies and assist a developing and

deciding individual to make suitable and viable choice why

examine the factors affecting career choice on senior secondary

school students in the past and even now for many. It was

assumed that on individual going through late adolescent would

be developing their independence and slowly eliminating his or

her family’s constraints as he or she formed his or her own

identity into the larger word in effect the person would make

career decision based on his or her own interest research and

occupational goals with limited influence from others. Infact even

when young adult move away from home their family will likely

still have a strong influence upon them on two significant life

events marriage and their career.

Purpose of the study

The main purpose of this study is to find out 1 If illiterate

parent have no influence on their children’s choice of career.

2 Review the effect of career choice on the academic

performance of student.

3 If the choice of career is based on the interest and value

toward that career

4 The influence of student career choice by their peer group

5 If student whose parent are educated have positive

orientation toward their education.

Research Question

The following research questions have been formulated to

guide the study:

1. Do students whose parent are educated have positive

orientation towards their education?

2. Is student’s choice of career influenced by their peer group?

3. Does career choice affect the academic performance of

students?

4. Is your choice of career based on your interest and value

towards that career?

5. Illiterate parents have no influence on their children’s choice

of career?

Significance of the study

The importance of this researcher work is to find to what

extent the influences of the parent will affect the student choice

of career and the attendance performance of students on the

subject that would heard them successfully toward this

occupation or job as a life span endeavour.

1. It will enable the research give recommendations to the

parents about their children’s response to the advice five

to them.

2. It will enable the researcher make concrete

recommendations to the government about the choice of

career among students especially now that the rate of

unemployment is high.

3. It will enable the researcher to make recommendation to

school administrators.

4. The findings will also enable the researcher made

recommendations for further research on the issue of

career prospects.

5. It will enable the peer and the students community to

have an impact on the youth adult expectation and

perception of vocation.

Scope of the study

The research study is limited to parental influence on the

choice of career among students in kaduna north Local

Government Area of kaduna State. This research work will cover

five randomly selected secondary schools in kaduna north Local

Government Area. five secondary school the schools are:

- Rimi College

- Government Secondary School Doka Senior

- Government Girls Secondary School Independency Way

- Sardauna Memorial College

- Capital School Kaduna.

Furthermore for the survey to be properly conducted

questionnaire will be employed. Students’ questionnaires

teacher’s questionnaires and parents questionnaires will be given

to men and women in the community to know their degree of

involvement in their children’s education and choice of career.

1.1 DEFINITION OF TERMS

- CAREER - A chosen pursuit or course of business activity or

enterprise especially one's professional life or employment

that offers advancement and honour.

- INFLUENCE- The power of acts by which parents or a

person has to control the desire of another.

- CHOICE: An act of choosing between two or more

possibility. The right to choose or the possibility of choosing.

- FACTORS: One of several thing that cause or influence

something or somebody to include as particular fact or

situation when you are thinking about or planning

something.

- EFFECTIVE: Producing strong feeling of sadness and

sympathy.

- COUNSELLING:This is the process where a troubled or a

confused person is helped by a professional to solve his

problem and to make better adjustment to his society.- GUIDANCE: This is the process of helping the student to

understanding himself and his environment in other to

develop self defectiveness.