The Relationship Between Job Related Factors And Organizational Factor With Career Choice Among Employees

Career choice is an important process that an individual has to make in their life. Choosing the right career will increase one’s job satisfaction. However, wrong career choice will lead to work fatigue, regret, discomfort, complaints and eventually quitting work. The purpose of this study is to investigate the job related factors and organizational factor with career choice among employees. The independent variables are job related factors (salary and benefits, work preferences) and organizational factor (career advancement opportunities). The dependent variable is career choice. A total of 44 employees who working in private sector were selected as the sample in this study. This study used quantitative approach and survey questionnaires were distributed to collect relevant data. Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) Software version 23 was used to analyse the data collected from the respondents. Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to determine the relationship between variables. The findings of the study shows that there is a significant relationship between salary and benefits, work preferences and career advancement opportunities with career choice. Discussion of research findings, implications and recommendations were presented to propose beneficial suggestions and call for further studies. As a conclusion, this study enable individuals to understand factors that related to career choice which allow them to be resolved through guidance in order to make more effective career choice