A Web Based Career Guidance Information System for Pre-Tertiary Institution Students in Nigeria

Abstract

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 Online 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.