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Evidently, a person´s success and happiness in life depends largely on how accurately a person selects his career. Hence, any inaccurate decision with regards to a person career can go a long way to affect the psychological state of an individual. Accordingly, the study investigated factors that influence individual career choice. Specifically, the main objectives of the study were to; to examine how the environment influences a person´s career choice; to investigate the influence of personality trait on career choice. The study employed probability sampling specifically simple random sampling to select the study participants. Subsequently, the study used Cochran´s sample size formula for continuous data to determine the sample size for the 500 population size. Based on the table, the sample size for this study was 147 on alpha value of 0.01 t-test value of 2.58. However, with an anticipated return rate of 65% the sample size was adjusted to address the possible non-response rate. Accordingly, the actual sample size employed in the study stood at 226. The study distributed 226 questionnaires to the students at the University of Education-Winneba, Kumasi campus.

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Dr. Owusu is a Senior lecturer and Head of Department of Marketing at Kumasi Technical University School of Business with 7 years of teaching experience at the University level. He had his PhD at Business school, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica in January 2003 and a Master of Business Administration (MBA, International Business Option).

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