Career Preference Of Higher Secondary Students In Relation To Gender

Abstract

The present study was taken up with the broadobjective to assess the career preference of higher secondary students in relation to their gender. For this study, a sample of 854 higher secondary students selected by using stratified random sampling technique. The Career Choice Inventory (CCI) developed by Dr. M. Govindan and Dr. G. Vishvanathan (2011) was used to collect the required data.To analyze the data, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, Pearson ‘r’, and ‘t’-test were employed. The findings of the study showed that the higher secondary students first preference of career is Architecture and Engineering and the least preference is Production related careers.