Web Based Career Guidance
Web Based Career Guidance
Web Based Career Guidance
MSc. (Computer Science), Federal University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.
MSc. (Info. Tech), Federal University of Technology, Department of Information and Media Technology, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.
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MSc. (Inf. Sc), Federal University of Technology, Department of Information and Media Technology Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.
MEng. (Electrical Engineering), Federal University of Technology, Information Technology Services, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.
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BSc. (Computer Science), Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Minna Niger State, Nigeria.
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Web Based Career Guidance is very important to our Educational System. We have an existing Manual Career
Guidance System with human counselors in charge, but this system is plagued with the following problems: few
number of human counselors, unavailability of a counselor in a good number of schools, few number of
counselors attending to students during school hours and the office of a counselor in schools are so unpopular that
students hardly meet them for career counseling. We have been able to design an O nline Career Guidance
Information System targeting students in pre tertiary institutions in Nigeria to solve the afore - mentioned
problems. The Online Web Based Career Guidance system was designed and implemented using data collected
from interviewing human counselors and surveys. The following scripting languages were employed: PHP,
MySQL, HTML, Java Script and CSS. The system was implemented and tested with 50 students and 76% of them
found the career system very useful.
Keywords: Web, Career, Guidance, information system, Educational System, Counselors
I.
INTRODUCTION
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B.
Significance of
the Study
This paper will be beneficial to the society at large,
but more specifically to secondary school leavers and
counselors. The secondary school students will
benefit in the sense that the information system will
help and guide them in making wise and appropriate
career choices and also inform them understand
basically what each career is about, what it entails,
and the required subjects they need to focus on to
succeed in that field. Counselors likewise can benefit
from the information system as it can serve as a tool
for them to use in making more accurate judgment.
The student will get to benefit front the information
system when they visit the web site, register, take a
career quiz and view the advisor page that intends to
intimate them with the career path in which the test
has deemed fit for them. Counselors can benefit by
asking students to take the career quiz and the
outcome of the career quiz can help the counselor
give better advice to the students.
In summary, this paper will to a large extent help to
provide a solution to the subject of career choice, it
will try to provide an alternative and complement
human councilors, in that it will be readily available
to anyone with a device that has a functional browser
and access the internet.
C.
Analysis Of The
Existing System
The analysis of the existing system is divided into iv.
two parts:
Limitations Of The Existing Manual
I. The analysis of the manual system.
System
II. Analysis of the few existing online career
The Manual career guidance is limited in the
websites.
following ways
a) Guidance and counseling has been limited to
Analysis of the Manual System.
secondary schools in most cases. The bed rock of
In analyzing the area of career guidance and
education i.e. the primary schools has been
counseling from the general view, we will see that
completely neglected.
or deduce that its goal is basically to assist students
b) Though counselors are found in secondary
in developing the individual growth of which there
schools, but the numbers of full time counselors
are certain procedures that the guidance counselor
are highly insignificant and cannot cater for the
uses during the course of his work, such
number of students.
procedures are:
c) Some counselors are not committed or diligent
i.
Test: these ae being developed to judge interest,
and can sometimes be unapproachable.
abilities and personality traits , such tests are:
d) Counselors can only attend to students during
working hours of the day.
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D.
Possible
Solutions
The web system being designed in this paper to
solve aforementioned problems falls roughly under
Expert system.
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Expert
System
An expert system is an interactive computer based
decision tool that uses both facts and heuristics in
solving difficult decision making problems, based on
knowledge acquired from an expert (Alhassan, 2013)
7%
27
%
Those who
felt
they
chose
the
wrong career
66
%
S/
N
Opinion
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Investigations
In 2007, a study was done to evaluate how well
professionals are fulfilled or contented with the kind
of career they are presently into, 314 professionals
were interviewed. Those interviewed were over
35years of age and from 16 different professions
around Benin city. The results are represented in
Table 3.1 and Fig. 3.6 here below.
Number And
Percentage
207(66%)
84(27%)
23(7%)
Those
who
have not
given it a
thought
iv.
Data Collection.
Input Design
The input of this system from the user point of view
is basically his actions on the pages of the site which
make up the system, these pages will be implemented
by encoding them with HTML (Hyper Text Markup
Language) and the page layout and design done with
CSS (cascade style sheet). The user will interact with
the system by clicking on menus an hyperlinks as
well as selecting the answers on the quiz page, the
quiz answers will be implemented using radio buttons
whereby only one option out of the four (4) can be
picked.
Storage Design
Results
IV. CONCLUSION
In this research work we have been able to explore
the problems encountered by the existing manual
system, to design a web based career guidance system
that will improve upon the existing manual/ human
career guide and to implement a web based
application that will help young ones get a good
understanding of themselves and advise them on the
career path that best suits them. And also serve as a
complementary tool for career guide and counselors.
In this research we have studied career guidance,
designed a functional web application and
implemented it with some successful test results.
V.
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