Career Guidance Using Expert System Approach

Abstract

The lack of quality career guidance in African high schools, caused by shortage of human and time resources that the process demands, has led to the choice of unsuitable careers resulting in widespread poor performance at the workplace. The focus of this paper is the use of Expert Systems that store the highly specialized knowledge of career counseling and dispenses it to the needy youth in a cheap and quick process. Initial results of the evaluation of the model, has shown a career diagnosis accuracy of 71%.