Career Readiness and Decision Making among the B.Tech Students of IT and Non IT Courses in the Colleges of Kolkata
Abstract
Career readiness is viewed as career maturity, college readiness, career aspiration and many more. This present article focused on searching dimensions of career readiness in new way. The selected dimensions are  mastery over the task, persistency in goal, skill development, adjustment ability and development of civic sense. Decision making also included as individual component of career readiness. Engineering students were selected as sample dividing two groups, namely student studied in Information Technology or software developer, and another were as core group of Engineering. Career readiness viewed as multidimensional construct and with various components. Result was found that students differentiated according to the levels and components of career readiness.
Keywords: Career readiness, components of Career Readiness, Core Engineering and Information Technology.
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