The Contribution of Career Guidance Service in Public Secondary Schools towards Professional Training: A Case of Magu District, Mwanza
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The study sought to examine the influence of career guidance services provided in public secondary schools on students’ choices of future professional training in Magu district, Mwanza- Tanzania. The study was guided by Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) that was developed by Lent, Brown, and Hackett in 1994. The study employed convergent parallel research design under mixed research approach which help in data collection, analysis of data. The sample size was 152 participants, simple randomly sampling was used to select secondary school teachers and form four students from. While purposive sampling was used to select public secondary school leavers in 2020 and head of secondary schools. Quantitative data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics with the helper of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21 and presented in frequency, percentages, graphs and charts. Qualitative data were collected through interview and analyzed thematically by creating themes. The study revealed that career guidance service that was provided in public secondary schools was ineffective; hence, making secondary school leavers to join unplanned professional training since it did not contribute to the students’ choices of future professional training. The government should ensure provision of career guidance services training to teachers.
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