CONCEPTS OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR STUDENTS IN NIGERIAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING AND ENVIRONMENTS

This article centers on creating the needed awareness for students in Nigerian institutions of higher learning on the need for them to have the consciousness to earnestly commence a process of career building and development even in their different courses of study. This awareness became necessary in order to avert a situation where they have to undergo frustrations in their work life as a result of an inability to build career from either the courses they studied or failed to study. The study provides basic variables and rudimentary needed especially by students for career choice and development. Holland Psychological- Personality types theory, developed in the 1980s, and which matches work with environment, is adopted as the theoretical framework with a view to giving explicit attention to behavioural style or personality types as the major influence in career choice development. Both primary and secondary methods were used to collect data for the study. The study findings revealed that, a good number of workers undergo varying degrees of frustration resulting from a lack of fulfilment or satisfaction in their various works, jobs or professions which was found out to be derived mainly from an initial failure on their part to plan, build or develop careers of their choices. The article concludes that, Nigerian institutions of higher learning should create Entrepreneurship Development Centres (EDCs) which will come up with vocational trainings in skills such as career development among others, to aid students plan, build and develop their careers from their school programs

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