Analysis of Influential Factors for High School Students’ Career Choice: Evidence from Canada

Abstract

Making a career choice is an important phase in every student’s life. Before making decision, students must consider several factors. This research is supposed to investigate the factors that may affect career choice. By collecting data from Statistics Canada, anonymous experimental questionnaires, and comparing and analyzing statistical and mathematical models such as standard deviation and Inter quartile range, this paper concludes five important factors that influence students' career choices: gender, interest, personality, environment, and opportunity. By studying each factor on a case-by-case basis, it can be concluded that first, in terms of gender's influence on career choices, boys tend to choose technical positions and girls tend to choose service positions. Second, Satisfaction, Security & Motivation is the most important factor in the issue of interest influencing students' career choices; Third, among personality, environment and opportunity, these three factors, personality is the biggest factor that affect the students' career choice. These conclusions inspire education that when guiding students to employment, they should pay more attention to students to examine their own personality. For students, when observing the interest in career choices, they can start with satisfaction, security, and motivation.