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    Factors associated with career choice and predictors of career intention among undergraduate students in Tanzania
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2014) Amani, Jacqueline
    The purpose of this study was to investigate factors associated with career choice and predictors of career intention among undergraduate’s students in Tanzania. The intention behind this motive was that understanding the reasons which make people choose and ultimately join their careers is essential for maintaining the country`s stable work force through informed recruitment and retention strategies. The study had four objectives, namely, to: (a) identify factors influencing university students towards career choice, (b) determine university students` level of career knowledge, attitudes towards careers, subjective norms and career self—efficacy, (c), examine the extent to which student`s fields of study careers, subjective norms and self-efficacy predict their career intentions, (d) compare career intentions across students` field of study. The study used a mixed-methods research approach to study a random sample of 1043 among 11689 undergraduate students in four selected universities through the use of questionnaires and focus group interviews as data collection methods. The findings revealed that career choice factors were mainly extrinsic, intrinsic and altruistic. These include; personal and family factors, employment opportunities, lack of academic qualification, career guidance and information. The chi-square analysis indicated statistically significant differences in career choice factors in terms of students` fields of study, whereby extrinsic factors were more evident for student teachers that their fellow in law, engineering and business. Moreover, the study found that majority of students had high career knowledge, strong subjective norms, positive attitude towards their careers and high career knowledge, strong subjective norms, positive attitude towards their careers and high career self-efficacy. Results from MANOVA indicated statistically significant others influence their career decisions. The findings of the study further showed that the majority of the students had intentions to join their prospective careers upon graduation. Their intentions were attributed to positive careers upon graduation. However, the chi-square test results showed that the students taking business and engineering were more likely to join their prospective careers than students taking education and law. Furthermore, the results from multiple regression analysis revealed that attitude was that strongest predictor of career