Title : A Study on Career choice of Co-operative University’s Graduates

Keywords : Career choice, Co-operative graduates, Demographic factors

Authors : NAY MIN AYE

Description : In view of universities' role as a source of qualified labour, this research explores the common career choice of graduates of Co-operative University, Thanlyin. Also, it aims to examine the relationship between the graduates’ demographic factors and their career choice with special reference to self-employed (creating one’s own business). A descriptive test was carried out and the data was gathered through self-completion questionnaire distributed to 150 graduates who are willing to cooperate for this study. Thus, sampling method is based on nonprobability convenient sampling technique. According to results, the most common career choice of Co-operative graduates is private sector employed, and the second one is self-employed. Also, it is found that the respondents who are the age of over 31, and have family business background have more propensities to establish own-business (Preference of self-employed). However, there is no gender and birth-order difference with regard to creating own business.