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| Published: June 25, 2020
Magnitude of career confusion among college students in India: An empirical report
Statistician and Education Consultant, Kerala, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
MSW Student, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
Principal & Professor of Psychology, St. John College, Nagaland, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.114/20200802
DOI: 10.25215/0802.114
ABSTRACT
In the early 1900s, America started its initiatives in the field of career choice with an innovative concept, ‘right person for the right job’. This motto was well-received by the American society and further became a unique focus of Euro-American educational system. Following this, aptitude (the inborn talent) together with interest was given high precedence in higher education and young people selected their career accordingly. Countries that accepted this new paradigm stands out globally whereas countries that adopted the conventional naive concept ‘anybody can do any job’ struggle to achieve the desired target. Even after a century has passed, the Indian education system is not able to cope up with the concept and perform poorly in human resource management. Many factors like social status, easily available job opportunity, parental pressure, peer influence drive many young people towards specific streams of study. Once they complete their studies in this scheme, end up in career confusion and struggle in the profession and life. In this framework, this study is aimed at identifying the magnitude of career confusion among college students and, suggests some substantial solutions to social workers, psychologists and educators in guiding young people to build a modern society in the Indian subcontinent. This empirical study collected data from four states of India. Students, parents, teachers and fresh employees were studied. Based on the results, the authors discuss the need for a paradigm shift in thinking and acting so that career confusion can be reduced to a greater extent.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Mini T. C., Christopher A., Janetius S. T.
Received: May 27, 2020; Revision Received: June 20, 2020; Accepted: June 25, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.114/20200802
10.25215/0802.114
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 2, April- June, 2020