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    Group Career Counselling and its Influence on Students’ Career Choices in Homa Bay County, Kenya
    (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (IJRISS), 2025-09-04) Linet Akinyi Elisha; Joab M. Kinzi, Phd; Lilian C. Kimaiyo, Phd
    The society expect students to make career choices that not only make them employable but also suitable by the end of their schooling. According to Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (2024), 75% of the unemployed youth did not know what career would suit them by the time they left school. Making career choices is known to be one of the most difficult decisions. This means that students require guidance and counselling in career failure to which they may end up in unsuitable career with lifelong frustrations. Effort have been made by the school career counsellors to manage career guidance and counselling, however, many school leavers continued continued to display lack of career awareness in kind of jobs that would suit them after school. The study objective was to investigate the influence of both peer and professional led group career counselling on career choice among secondary school students in Homa Bay County, Kenya. This was a quantitative study that adopted correlational research design. Form three students were targeted and a sample of 379 participants obtained using proportional sampling. Data was collected using a 5-point scaled questionnaire validated by experts and whose Cronbach's alpha calculated reliability was .78. The analysis included calculation of Means,percentages, correlation and regression. It was found that group counselling has statistically significant influence on career choice with correlation (r) of 0.50 and (R2) of 0.25. This was interpreted to mean the relationship was positive and moderate and the (R2) value, meant that group counselling strategy influenced career choice by 25%. In conclusion there is a significant positive relationship between group career counselling and career choice. Regression analysis revealed influence of group career counselling on career choice. This suggest that improving counselling strategies also improves student career choices.
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    The Influence of Individual Career Counselling Strategy on Career Choices among Students in Secondary Schools in Homa Bay County, Kenya
    (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (IJRISS), 2025-07-21) Linet Akinyi Elisha; Joab M. Kinzi PhD; Lilian C. Kimaiyo PhD
    The Kenya government has a policy for career guidance and counselling which is meant to help provide a robust and professional career guidance and counselling to students. The policy aims at creating adequate human resource and reducing the mismatch between career choices and demand for labour. This is the rationale behind provision of career guidance services to students in schools. Most Secondary school counsellors have adapted individual career counselling strategy to help adhere to the policy. Despite the effort made by the the guidance counsellors to manage career guidance and counselling in secondary school, many school leavers continue to display lack of awareness in kind of career that would be suitable for them after school. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of the individual career counselling strategy used on career choice among secondary school students in Homa Bay County, Kenya. The study employed ex-post-facto research design and sampled 372 form three students. The Hollands theory of career decision guided the study. Data was collected using questionnaires. The instruments were validated by experts and reliability of .78 obtained. The analysis was by calculating percentages, correlation and regression. Results findings were that individual counselling strategy was frequently used at 47 % in terms of percentages. It was also established that individual counselling strategy had statistically significant influence on career choice with Pearson correlation coefficient (r) of 0.65, which was a strong positive relationship. The coefficient determinant (R²) obtain was 0.4225 which was meant that individual counselling strategy influenced career choice by 42.25%. It was concluded that individual counselling significantly influenced career decision among students in homabay county. This also increased the chance of a student making right decision on career choices by almost 50 percent.