Relation between career planning and personality: Example of undergraduate student of Bitlis Eren University

Individuals are required to choose jobs that are appropriate to their knowledge, skills and personality characteristics when choosing jobs to work throughout their lives. Individuals who are aware of their own characteristics will be able to make more correct choices for their working lives. They will be able to find appropriat ecareer plans to achieve their desired goals and have an efficient and active working life during their working life. In our country, the young population makes career choices according to the scores obtained as a result of the exams they have entered rather than their own knowledge, talent and personality characteristics. Althought his does not seem to be a problem in the short term, it will have significant consequences in the long term. Individuals may have consequences such as job inefficiency, unwillingness to work, and unresponsive jobs that save the day rather than being career-oriented. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between career planning and personality traits. In addition, this study investigates whether students; career planning and personality traits differ according to some demographic (gender, faculty, class, residence of parents, educational status of parents.) characteristics. The study group of the study consists of 444 students studying at the faculties of Bitlis Eren University in 2019-2020 academic year. Personal Information Form, Career Planning Scale and Personality Scale were used as data collection tools. Independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA test, Levene test, Tukey HSD test and Pearson Correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. As a result of there search, there was a negative relationship between career planning and neuroticism which is one of the sub-dimensions of personality. In addition, there was a positive relationship between extra version, openness, harmony and conscientiousness among the sub-dimensions of career planning and personality. Keywords: Career, Career Planning, Personality