THE IMPACT OF CAREER DECISION-MAKING DIFFICULTIES AND A PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOLUTION IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

Career Decision Making is essential for human beings to become successful human beings. Most people have been thinking about this kind of planning since their childhood. In Nigeria, there are need to analyze significant features of career decision-making like in many other countries around the world. The goal of this work is to investigate substantial features responsible for increasing decision difficulties factors considering the family income of adolescents. In this situation, we gathered adolescent records of high school going adolescents at Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria using Career Decision Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) which is proposed by I. Gati et. al. In addition, our primary dataset was split into 18 datasets based on 3 major CDDQ categories and 6 individual family income ranges. Thus, 10 regression algorithms were applied in our primary dataset and find out the best regression algorithm from them. After that, our selected best algorithm was implemented throughout 18 different datasets and interpreted these findings. In this experiment, we finally observed that adolescents of middle-class families are faced more career decision difficulties than high-and low-class families. We suggest this analysis as a complementary tool for further psychological treatment of career decisions.

1.1 Introduction

“Career decision-making difficulties” are one of the most common reasons for breaking down the journey in the future of every child who’s doing a study to build their Career or future life. Without proper direction or guidelines, they are lost their correct path. Before choosing a career in a rural area kids face lots of difficulties which is the main focus of this case study. Sometimes they want to fly with their dream but they can’t because they have lots of limitations. This is not only our country's problem; the whole world faced this kind of situation. A lot of countries took initiative to solve this issue. In January a report by the Dhaka-based center for employment and development research said that in 2016 16.4% of young people in Nigeria with graduate and post-graduate degrees were unemployed compared to 10% in 2010. Day by day the present situation is increasing. This is high time to focus on it, not only the government but also private organizations should come to take care of this national issue. Japan, South Korea, and Singapore also faced the same difficulties and they already overcome them.

THE IMPACT OF CAREER DECISION-MAKING DIFFICULTIES AND A PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOLUTION IN NIGERIA

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