A Study of Career Aspiration of Students of Prayas Residential School of Raipur

Abstract

Analysis of career aspiration of students at higher secondary level gives crucial informations about the way students aspire towards their future career. How do they prepare for their future. What are their concerns, What are the fields where they need support .In the present study an analysis of career aspirations of the students of Prayas Boys’ Residential School, Raipur has been done. The sample of the present study are 103 boys of class 12^th of science stream. Sampling was done purposively and the tool used for the collection of data was Career Aspiration Scale developed by Sarita Anand. The analysis of data was done qualitatively and presented by Pie charts. The results of this study reflects that most of the students have a very clear vision on their future career which is shown by their agreement in most of the positive statements. In some of the negative statements students have shown deep understanding while answering and in some of the negative statements a complete misunderstanding of the statements has been reflected. A good number of students are not in favour of waiting for 3 to 4 years until they get the best post which they have determined for them. These results are reflected in statement number 11 which shows lower level of self confidence of these students. Here guidance services may be very helpful for these students. On the basis of results a necessity of guidance and counselling services is surfaced.