THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TYPES AND MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS AND CAREER CHOICE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

Choosing and planning a career are important and everyone should start to plan their life early before or right after graduating in order for them to get their life in shape and become better in the future. Choosing a career that is in one’s own interest is important and making a career decision that is in one's interest will lead to better job satisfaction and productivity. Thus, this study will be focusing on an individual’s personality and motivational factors to see whether both of the variables play a role in choosing a career. This study obtained 376 undergraduate students at Management and Science University (MSU) Shah Alam. A descriptive research strategy was then applied to obtain primary data from the research population, which were undergraduate university students, through the use of a questionnaire survey. Therefore, it can be concluded that the values in skewness and kurtosis were important in identifying any outliers from the normality. This study was conducted to test three main objectives which are as follows: (1) To determine the personality types among undergraduate students in MSU, Shah Alam, (2) To identify the chosen career choice that matches the personality type among undergraduate students at MSU Shah Alam, and (3) To determine the motivation factors on career choice among undergraduate students at MSU Shah Alam. Furthermore, this study is a cross-sectional research study as it intends to make inferences about possible relationships or to gather preliminary data to support further research and experimentation. The results of this study have been able to find out the personality type of the majority of undergraduate students at MSU, Shah Alam and know that not all students have a personality that matches their faculty. Next, the result of this research can also know that not all undergraduate students choose a career according to their personality and possibly because of personality inconsistency. And finally, the results of this study have been able to find out that the majority of students choose a career using external motivation.