Career Counseling: A Key Component in Career Development

Career guidance is an essential activity that is planned and has life-long learning strategies and policies to encourage and develop employable. However, little attention and provision is made for students and employees resulting in utmost confusion in choosing career paths. This paper finds out the existence of career guidance in schools and its impact on career choices and development. A cross-sectional design was employed to study staff and students of a polytechnic in Ghana and stratified sampling with proportional allocation was used to sample 2500 students and convenience sampling technique to select 210 staff. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data. Hypothesis was tested and analysis of variance [ANOVA] and correlation and regression analysis were used to analyse the data. It was found out that there is a positive relationship between career counseling and career development. Recommendations include the development of a comprehensive career counseling programme to ensure effectiveness.