Effectiveness of guidance and counselling strategies at promoting career decision making among youths in Nigeria

The paper investigated the effectiveness of guidance and counselling strategies at promoting career decision making skills among youths in Nigeria. The purpose of the study is to find out the effectiveness of group career guidance, group career counselling and group career guidance and counselling put together. The study employed the use of quasi-experimental design of pre-test and post-test of three experimental groups. Two questions were raised to guide the study and one null hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significant. Research instruments were two namely, Career Development Inventory (CDI) and Group Career Guidance and Counselling Strategies (Package used for treatment). Treatment procedure took place in three different school locations where students were pre-tested and post-tested before and after treatment with Group Career Guidance (GCG), Group Career Counselling (GCC) and Group Career Guidance and Counselling (GCG+GCC). The results of the study revealed a general low career maturity and decision making skills before treatment. The study revealed improvement of the maturity and the skills after the treatment. It is thus recommended that the group career guidance should be compulsorily made to be part of secondary school curriculum in Nigeria.