Relationship between Technical Students Choice of Trades and Career Aspirations

Abstract

This study was designed to find out the relationship between technical students choice of trades and career preparation or aspired vocation. The random sampling technique was used to select 100 final year students who were preparing to take the NABTEB examination. The analysis show that Electrical/Electronics career ranked first, while carpentry and joinery (5%) ranked last. A total 20 students choose to be auto-mechanics of this number were unrealistic in the choice of trade. All those who carpentry and joinery as career, choose appropriate subjects. 75 students agreed that they were guided when they were selecting the trades they offered in NABTEB. It was therefore recommended among others that students should always be guided by qualified guidance counselors in order to achieve that vocational aspiration.