How Students Decide About Their Careers? A Case Study of Management Students of Textile Institute of Pakistan, Karachi

Abstract

A young person of today is faced with an increasing number of options before taking a decision. This becomes especially difficult when the decision has to have implications on the whole future life of a person, such as the decision about what field to choose for studies, what career to opt for, or what institution to join for professional studies. The youth of our country has more opportunities and options before them than their predecessors had in their time. This excess of options spawns a complicated state of affairs for our adolescents. A person's decision-making method matures as time passes, because of the biological changes in the individual and the continuous learning process of the person. Usually, in Pakistan, our students lead a very protected and pampered life.They are not used to taking decisions for their lives. When it comes to joining a university, they go to the same sources of power, i.e. their parents, but in this situation parents are not that much of a help. We tested this situation to find out whether this analysis of ours is really true.