Socioenvironmental Influences on career choices of novice undergraduates

Summary This paper extends an in-depth, comprehensive research on the socio-environmental influences on career choices of novice undergraduates in Malaysia. It elaborates the various trends that is being adopted by today’s contemporary undergraduate society and how it affects or influences their career-making decisions. The focal point of thie research paper in the usage of the PIC Model by Gati & Asher (2001) and how it has aided many undergraduates to obtain more insight towards career decision making skills. This paper also takes a critical perspective on career choice as one of the main foci on this paper would be the gaps from previous researches and the proper implications that could possibly enhance the future studies and researches in this area. This paper concentrates on the possible gaps of previous researches and also the intensity of the effect of gender and academic achievement on career choice of Malaysian Undergraduates by reviewing two research questions: “Do high academic achievers find it more difficult do choose a career compared to lower academic achievers?”, and “Does gender have a significant effect on career choices of undergraduates in Malaysia?”. Concise and thorough evaluation of past reasearch has been done and given much attention in order to pick out the gaps and flaws that have not been given much attention to. These evaluations and answers to the said research would hopefully provide sufficient information for further researches to be done in order to obtain maximum information and insight regarding the topic of career choices aming undergraduates in Malaysia.

Overview of Research Topic
Description of Research Area For most individuals, the whole idea of a career choice that leads to their career development is very often regarded as a lifelong process of ensuring that the choice of employment opportunities are made as available as possible to them. There are many factors that play a pivotal role in influencing the

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