Factors Influencing the Aspiration of Secondary School Students on the Choice of Career in Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria

The study intended to find the factors influencing the Aspiration of Secondary School Students on the choice of Career in Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State.The Study adopted a descriptive survey research design with the use of questionnaire to collect information from the respondents.The population of the study comprised 5,256 secondary school students in Ado Local government area.The sample consisted of one hundred secondary school students in Ado local government area of Ekiti State.Two local council development area were carved out from Ado local government area making a total of three.Multistage sampling procedure was used for the sample of the study.In stage one, two local governments were selected out of the three local governments made up of one local government area and two local council development areas.In stage two, five secondary schools were selected from each of the local governments making a total of ten secondary schools.In stage three, ten students were selected from ten schools making a total of one hundred students.The reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained for the study.Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions.The hypotheses were analysed and tested at 0.05 level of significance.The finding revealed that all the items presented in table 1 are factors that influence parents on the choice of career among secondary school students.It was also revealed that there was no significant difference between male and female students on the factors that influence parents on the choice of career among secondary school students.The following recommendations among others were made that an attempt should be made by the government to improve and expand career guidance services in secondary school s across Ekiti State.