DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERISED CAREER GUIDANCE INFORMATION SYSTEM

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Man in search of comfort struggle to meet up with good career and for this to be achieved, it has to be started as early as possible. From the time man is born, expectations abound to know what likely he will be able to do as he grows up. This has to do with his natural behavior and mental exercise display. This continues in family/parents and other relaxation acting as counselling unit until the child goes in to school. In school the teacher takes over the counselling, it is a continuous exercise until one finds ones feet, then he can continue from there and equally be in a position to guide and counsel others.

The stages where much work is carried out on counselling is in secondary schools .This is a stage when a child is grown to be able to understand maturely and when the child’s attitude is fully studied in line with academic performance . In all secondary school across the country , there exist a guidance and counsellor office where people knowledgeable in the area of psychology are employed in order to help advise the younger ones in school which way forward to their future career . There people through class visitation, Observing students during recreation and calling on them at intervals for questioning, came to know the students betters and be able to guide and counsel them in their future career probably in university or in any other area of endeavor.

1.1 Statement Of The Problem

The number of students involved in schools counselling are very enormous and few staff in counselling cannot handle the job effectively.

It is always very easy to forget information about students and to reach all the students, contributes and problems.

1.2 Aims/Objectives

The primary aim of this projects work is to provide lasting solution to the problem affecting counselling exercise in secondary schools. The following objectives below are the study

To make the criteria and process involved in the exercise of counselling very easy and flexible

To carefully take care of the burden, the staff faces in trying to do the work of counselling manually.

1.3 Purpose Of The Study

The purpose of this project work is to probe into the developing a counselling software for schools with a view of creating awareness of the use computer in counselling with due consideration of this new technology advancement.