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PERCEPTION OF TEACHERS TOWARDS STUDENTS CAREER CHOICES AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL

53 Pages : 563-571

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-II).53      10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-II).53      Published : Jun 2022

Perception of Teachers Towards Students' Career Choices at the University Level

    Finding a meaningful career path is a turning point in a student's development as a person and a member of society. A Mixed-methods Explanatory Sequential design was used to collect and analyse the data. The population of the study was all of the professors of universities in Lahore, Pakistan sample size was 456 professors. Surveys were used to get quantitative data, which was then analysed with SPSS. The goal of this study was to find out how making well-informed choices about a young person's future can affect their chances of getting a job. As a result, researchers came up with new ways to help college students with career counselling that have worked well. There were both theoretical and practical implications of the study's findings, as well as possible directions for further research.

    Perception of Teachers, Students' Career Choices, Career Knowledge
    (1) Raham Zaid
    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Muhammad Israr
    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal, Dir Upper, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad lshaq
    Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
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    APA : Zaid, R., Israr, M., & lshaq, M. (2022). Perception of Teachers Towards Students' Career Choices at the University Level. Global Educational Studies Review, VII(II), 563-571. https://doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-II).53
    CHICAGO : Zaid, Raham, Muhammad Israr, and Muhammad lshaq. 2022. "Perception of Teachers Towards Students' Career Choices at the University Level." Global Educational Studies Review, VII (II): 563-571 doi: 10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-II).53
    HARVARD : ZAID, R., ISRAR, M. & LSHAQ, M. 2022. Perception of Teachers Towards Students' Career Choices at the University Level. Global Educational Studies Review, VII, 563-571.
    MHRA : Zaid, Raham, Muhammad Israr, and Muhammad lshaq. 2022. "Perception of Teachers Towards Students' Career Choices at the University Level." Global Educational Studies Review, VII: 563-571
    MLA : Zaid, Raham, Muhammad Israr, and Muhammad lshaq. "Perception of Teachers Towards Students' Career Choices at the University Level." Global Educational Studies Review, VII.II (2022): 563-571 Print.
    OXFORD : Zaid, Raham, Israr, Muhammad, and lshaq, Muhammad (2022), "Perception of Teachers Towards Students' Career Choices at the University Level", Global Educational Studies Review, VII (II), 563-571
    TURABIAN : Zaid, Raham, Muhammad Israr, and Muhammad lshaq. "Perception of Teachers Towards Students' Career Choices at the University Level." Global Educational Studies Review VII, no. II (2022): 563-571. https://doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-II).53