GUIDANCE COUNSELLORS’ CAREER AWARENESS CREATION ROLES AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS CHOICE OF PROFESSION IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined guidance counsellors’ career awareness creation roles among secondary school students choice of profession in Delta State, Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses were tested. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study was 448 Guidance Counsellors. The sample for the study was 178 Guidance Counsellors from secondary schools in Delta North education zone. The instrument for data collection for the study was a close ended, structured questionnaire titled: “Guidance Counsellors’ Career Awareness Creation Questionnaire (GCCACQ). The instrument was face-validated by three experts while Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which yielded a coefficient of 0.882. Out of the 178 copies of the questionnaire administered, 171 copies were completely filled and returned which constituted about 96.1% rate of return. The data collected were analysed using mean for answering the research questions while t-test statistics was used for testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study identified 10 career awareness creation roles of guidance counsellors for guiding secondary school students and 13 skills required by guidance counsellors for awareness creation on career guidance of secondary school students. Based on the major findings, the study recommended among others that there should be constant in-service training for school guidance counsellors on skills required by guidance counsellors for awareness creation on career guidance of students.