The Effectiveness of Career Goal Setting on Career Choice of Students

Career choice is one of the various aspects of life that an appropriate choice can be background of the feeling of satisfaction in other aspects of life. This research was studying the effect of training career goal setting on choosing career goals، and determining the appropriate career، based on more understanding on their needs، goals، interests، capabilities and proportional to personality type for psychology’s students (B. A) of Payame Noor University of Tehran. The first، the researchconstruct questionnaire of career choice completed by a group 80 samples of student and then after final correction completed by 50 samples of psychology's student (B. A) of Payame Noor University and finally from among of those students 40 subjects were randomly selected، in two groups of experi-mental (n=20) and control (n=20) were placed for performing experimental study with pre-test and post-test. The experimental group was trained career goal setting in 10 sessions. Findings showed average score of experimental group were significantly increased rather than control group that can refer this increase to intervention. Results indicated the effectiveness of career goal setting on career choice of participants. Also findings of this training affect in career choice subscales such as attitude، expectations and ability to action.