The Effect of Career Awareness Status of Students Faculty of Sports Sciences on Career Plans

Abstract

Study aim(s): This study aims to examine the effect of career awareness of Sports Science Faculty students on their career plans.

Methods: The research group consists of a total of 167 people, 82 males, and 85 females, studying at the Faculty of Sport Sciences of Suleyman Demirel University. The personal information form created by the researcher was used to obtain demographic questions, and the career awareness scale developed by (16) was used to determine career awareness. The variance and homogeneity of the obtained data were tested, and the Pearson correlation test was used. In the statistical analysis and interpretations of the data, the p<0.05 significance level was taken into consideration. Cronbach Alpha value was calculated as 0.88 for career awareness. A positive correlation was found in the total score of Career Planning and the total score of Professional Career Awareness and in all sub-dimensions of Career Planning and Vocational Career Awareness, where the participants' Career Planning Total Scores and Vocational Career Awareness Total scores were high.

Results: As a result, career awareness is an important concept for making the right career choices.

Conclusions: The studies in the literature and our study, which state that career awareness has an important place in decision-making processes, show that students' career choices have great importance in decision-making processes and that the right career choices will shape their lives correctly.