Career Prospects of Arts Students in Technical Universities, a Descriptive Study of the Faculty of Applied Arts, Takoradi Technical University, Ghana

Abstract

Career is frequently understood to relate to the working aspects of an individual's life or a person'scourse or progress through life. Many a time students of Arts in their various respects seem to be myopic in their career prospects.  The descriptive and qualitative research design was adopted by the researchers to find out if the students were aware of career prospects in the various fields in the job market, whether students upon completing their academic work had plans of establishing their own business, their intended target market, sustainability and expansion of their career and if they had any source(s) of funds in mind.  The research revealed that majority of them were aware of available career prospects, in both private and public sectors. Some expressed preparedness to set up their own business with the hope of getting family assistance, micro finance facility and others.  Only an insignificant number of students claimed they were not aware of career prospects and these were from Ceramics, Painting and Sculpture departments. Lecturers should therefore encourage students to join existing associations for assistance whether financial or advisory and participate in workshops, seminars, presentations, book writing, etc.