چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper examines in-school adolescents and career choices in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The sample
consists of two hundred randomly selected parents and in-school adolescents from four local
government areas in Ekiti State. Two hypotheses were generated and tested at 0.05 level of
significance using t-test statistical analysis. The results showed that there were no significant
differences between parental influence, as well as gender influence of in-school adolescents in
choice of career. The paper concludes that parents need to give adequate career information to
their adolescents and have positive job values. Also, females need to decide whether to start their
family first or settle on a career and start their family later.