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Choosing a right career path is a huge part of a young man or woman’s life. The
career path students choose will affect how they live the rest of their life. A lot of
students go through college without knowing what career path they want. Career
decision making is very important in choosing the strands for Senior High School
advocacy program in order to achieve the goal that fits to their interest and skills.
Ligao National High School as basis for the development of career guidance advocacy
program. Specially, it sought answers to the following sub-problems: (1) What are the
career preferences of the Grade 10 students in Senior High School along first career
preference, second career preference; and third career preference?; (2) What are the
course preference of the Grade 10 students in college?; (3) Are their career preferences
congruent with the choice of courses in college?; (4) What are the factors that influence
the students’ career preferences?; and What career guidance advocacy program for
The study used the quantitative research method procedures to gather results to
answer the problems. This research method was suitable in this study since the use of
quantitative method allowed the researcher to measure and describe the studied
Findings
1. The students most preferred are the HUMSS courses which are social works,
psychology, sociology, peace studies, and political science. The result also shows that
the preferred college courses and senior high school strands are parallel from one
another. However, there still a significant number of students who were undecided for
their first, second and third choices in senior high school which are 3.19%, 6.47%, and
9.66% respectively.
school with percentage of 92.31%. It is very interesting to note that female students are
more eager to go to college rather than the male students with the percentage of
95.89% and 88.36% respectively. However, there is 7.13% of the students who were
undecided if they will go to college and 0.56% or about 6 students who will not pursuit
college degree because they want to work. There are 88.27% of the Grade 10 students
had already plan of what college course they want to take. Female students are more
college ready since 92.49% of them had already a plan while 83.63% for male students.
However, there were 8.07% students who do not have plan for their college course and
undecided. The 3.66% students who were undecided are coming from male students.
3. It was found out that 856 or 80.30% of the students match their choice of
senior high school strand to their preferred college course. However, 210 or 19.70% of
the students has mismatch to their choice of senior high school strand to their preferred
college degree.
4. The factors that greatly influenced the students’ decision are their
personal preference and motivation and economic factor with 3.81 and 3.61
respectively. The result is almost the same with male and female students with
descriptive rating of HIGHLY TRUE for personal and economic factors as the basis for
choosing their career path. The least influential on students’ career preference is the
social factor which includes parents, peers and teachers with weighted mean of 2.66
and interpreted as Moderately True. The students nowadays are already independent in
terms of decision making. Even if they have some misconceptions on the congruency of
their career preferences, still they want to decide on their own and don’t want to depend
CGAW TRAIL. This is composed of eight (8) steps or mga hakbang (in Filipino term)
the theme: follow the guide (the facilitators), tag a career (the choosing process), like
at least 1 hour to 1t most 1 ½ hours, depending on the number and level of involvement
the trail.
Conclusions
1. The most preferred senior high school career preference is the Humanities
2. The most preferred college career preference was the Humanities and
Social Science (HUMSS) related courses such as social works, psychology, sociology,
3. Most of the students match their choice of senior high school strand to
their preferred college course. However, there is still large number of students has
mismatch of choice of senior high school strand to their preferred college degree.
4. The factors that greatly influenced the students’ decision are personal
CGAW TRAIL.