IMPACT OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SERVICES ON STUDENTS' CAREER CHOICE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MAKURDI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE

ABSTRACT This study investigated effect of counselling services on student’s career choice in secondary schools in Makurdi Local Government Area. Survey design was used for the study. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. Questionnaire was used to obtained data from a sample of 375 respondents. Mean and standard deviation scores were used to answer the research questions while chi-square was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significant. Findings revealed that; information service, orientation service, placement service and appraisal service have significant influence on career choice of Secondary Schools in Makurdi Local Government Area. Based on the findings, it is recommended that, government and schools authority should ensure that relevance information career choices are provided for Secondary School students so that they would have more knowledge of current issues surrounding their chosen career choices, school organization in Makurdi Local Government Area orientation service should aim at providing adequate concepts or ideas that would help Secondary School students to understand the weakness of their career choices, school and non-governmental organizations should work together to improve on directing students on the right path and capacity so that the aim of counselling career choices would achieve it purposes thereby building in students self-reliance skills and school organization should strengthen the collection and analyzing data of monitoring student so that where need be should be referred to appropriately without difficulty.