Job seeking strategies employed by educated youth in Nigeria.
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2015
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Counselling Association of Nigeria
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The study examined job seeking strategies employed by educated youth in Nigeria. The descriptive survey method was used and data were collected through the administration of an instrument titled “Job Seeking Strategies Employed by Educated Youths Questionnaire” (JSSEEYQ). A multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted in selecting the respondents that participated in the study. At the first stage, a cluster of six geo-political zones was considered. The purposive sampling technique was adopted to select five out of the six geopolitical zones based on population and location. Two states were randomly selected in each of the five geo-political Zones and the capital cities of each of these states were purposively selected as well. This is because most job seekers often migrate to cities in search of employment. The snowball sampling procedure, which could be referred to as chain referral sampling, was used to select 400 respondents across the various states. Responses from the respondents were analyzed using percentages, means, frequency, t- test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). All null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The major findings of this study showed that there was no significant difference in the job seeking strategies employed by educated youths in Nigeria on the basis of religion. However, a significant difference was found on the basis of gender, age, educational qualification and on whether they had ever visited a career counsellor. The implication of this study for counseling, among others, is that counsellors should intensify efforts at organizing enlightenment programmes on strategies that enhances job seekers’ ability to secure employment. It was also recommended that government should do more in terms of providing employment for the youths. Job seekers should endeavor to regularly update their knowledge in their field of study so that they can always be relevant.
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Job, Strategies, Educated, Youth