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7.

To secure a job in ARS

928

i

8.

To enter politics

4640

xxi

9.

To secure sales and business occupation

3202

xvii

10.

To start one’s own consultancy in agriculture

2645

xiv

11.

To secure a job in voluntary organisation

3016

xvi

12.

To secure a job in central govt.

1949

vi

13.

To secure a job in cooperative sector

2274

x

14.

To become a business analysis

3712

xix

In general the results revealed that a majority of students preferred an A.R.S job,

an administrative job in government departments, securing a job in multinational

bank followed by securing academic position in university/college. This might

be because of the security of job in government organisations, high status, pay

and risks, and other facilities. Naturally starting one’s own business require a lot

of investment in terms of resources like money, labour, time, materials and also

it require risk bearing ability. This might be the reasons for the above trend of

results. The findings are in line with the results reported by Pandey (1974) and

Waman et al . (2000).

A cursory look at the Table-2 provides the information on the occupational

aspiration preference at P.G students of B.C.K.V. The results revealed that a

majority of students preferred to secure Agricultural scientist job (30.17%)

followed to secure a job in multinational bank (12.93%) followed by secure an

executive job in government department and job in nationalised bank (10.77%) as

their third preferred occupation. The second order occupational preferred were to

secure a job in ARS (23.70%) followed by secure an academic job in university

(21.55%) and secure an executive job in government department (14.39%).

Sources of information utilized for job placement

The data on sources of information consulted by students of B.C.K.V for job

placement is provided in Table 3. It is observed from these tables that all the

respondents used mass media sources to maximum extent. It is also interesting to

note that 100% students used university placement cell for obtaining information

regarding job placement. Among the mass media sources all the respondents used

news papers as a source for job placement followed by websites (88.36%).Among

the least used mass media sources was radio (only 1.72%). Among the informal

sources it is noted that students received maximum information regarding job

from their friends (88%) followed by their parents (50.43%).least used sources for

information was neighbours only 6.46%

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