The relationship of holland theory in career decision making: A systematic review of literature

Abstract

Occupational and educational decision is one of the issues faces by the young generation. The vocational interest and occupational congruency is one of the factor that influence individual in the career decision. Holland's Theory is one of the career theory that helps individual in understanding their own career personality and later helps them in career decision making. This study is aimed at determining the relationship between Holland's Theory and career decision making, and to identify the factors that affect career decision making. Scopus and Science Direct databases were searched to identify articles published between 2010 and 2018 which hit the keywords of 'Holland theory', 'career' and 'education decision'. A total of 20 journal articles were selected after inclusion and exclusion criteria runs. 70% of the research found that vocational personality types need to have high congruency with the working and study environment. It will help increase the performance. The factors that contributed to career decisions are career education, financial stress, parental support, gender, culture and job lose or live event. Holland theory makes a big contribution to the career and education decision making and helping in improving career satisfaction.