Insights into career choices by college going students

Abstract

This study aims to identify the factors on the basis of which career choice is being made by college students. For this , the information is solicited from 111 college going student. It was found that most of them preferred working in private sector and like to stay in India rather than overseas job opportunities. They accorded importance to both monetary and non- monetary factors while choosing career. Further they rated ten traits in order of importance viz. salary, work-life balance, growth, stability, appreciation, prestige and power, decentralization, creativity, innovation and centralization in making career decisions.