Abstract:
Career development is one of the fundamental aspects of human development and is
considered as an important dimension of psychosocial development. The concept of a career
and career guidance is seen to be highly influenced by cultural, social and economic factors.
To a large extent, one’s career decision determines how time will be spent, what aptitude and
values will be adopted, who will be chosen as friends, who will be the life partner, where one
will reside and what type of family living will be adopted. While career decision is this much
important, it is often made by our teenagers and youth with little thought, guidance or
planning. Recent career management paradigms advocate that career development is a process
that is the outcome of a complex interaction between the individual and the environment. It is
an on-going process that needs to be understood in the broader context of the society that the
individual is placed in (Arulmani & Nag-Arulmani, 2004).
