A STUDY ON CAREER SATISFACTION OF ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT

A Career is the sequence and variety of occupations (paid and Unpaid) which one undertakes throughout a life time. More broadly ‘Career' includes life roles, leisure activities, learning and work. This study examines the Arts and Science college students' career selections, career satisfactions, the influences of career guidance classes in career selection, students' confident level about their selected career and factors determining the career selection. A Survey research design was adopted to obtain data from 100 respondents from various college arts and science students. The results of the study reveals that 68% of students are satisfied on their selected career, 82% of respondents are have confident on their selected career and career selection has been influenced by various factors such as job vacancy, goodwill, passion on career, status, society and own interest. The study concludes that career selection is the primary responsibility of students based on their won wishes. Career guidance classes can be offered to all school students to select suitable career according to the wish of students.