Assessment Of Compatibility Of Occupation Choices Of Students Receiving Tourism Training and Their Career Anchors

This research has been made for the assessment of compatibility of occupation choices of students receiving Vocational Tourism Training and their career anchors. In the research, the outstanding Career Anchors of the students and the conditions of working in tourism sector have been compared. The survey form generated for this purpose has been exercised on 406 students who receive tourism training in three different Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools in the research population on November 2014. As the result of the research, it is detected that the primary career anchors of the students are respectively “Stability, Life Style, Technical and Functional Competence”. None the less, it is designated that the career anchors of “Stability and Life Style” which are primary for the students, are not compatible for a successful vocational life in the tourism sector.