Effects of congruency with vocational and personlity traits to career aspiration of hotel personels: Field study in İstanbul

Nowadays, the ongoing developments in science and technology, alteration of social and politics arena and competition, bring about significant changes in social and economic enviroments besides those changes in the organizational structures. The effects of globalization, technology, variation, knowledge of society and the changing in the organizational structures, developments in the personal education and preferences have changed the understanding of career. In the era of information, life-time job oppurtunities, functional titles and continuous improvement in terms of high wages have left its place to life-time education, continuous self-improvement and the need for ensuring full-time employment. The aim of this study is demonstrate effects congruency of vocational personality traits and personality traits that required tourism industry to career aspiration. For this purpose, survey was achieved, in order to demonstrate whether there exists any relationship between vocational personality traits and career aspiration by the help of a questionary has been generated with Holland?s Vocational Preference Inventory and Career Aspiration scale developed by Duman at hotels situated in Istanbul. In order to reach research universe, number of beds tried to found according to Tourism Investment Licenced and Tourism Operation Licenced establisments statistics 2008 and Municipality Licenced Establishments 2006 statistics in Istanbul. It is found 118.500 beds existing in Istanbul. Number of personel rate per bed is 0.50. With reference to universe is found as 59.250 personel and it is decided that attain 382 personel for survey according to table hat was generate by Altunışık and Others.