There are many factors affecting the career planning process. More commonly known and more emphasized psychological factors are related to self-recognition.

Psychological factors:

Interests, personality traits, abilities, skills, values.

Ability can be defined as the potential of learning, ability to be born, but also developed. For example, it can be said that a student who can easily learn physics course, solve more difficult problems than his friends, and obtain high grades has the ability of physics or science.

Skill is a concept very similar to talent, often confused with talent. Skill is the ability to do a job. Skills can be learned and acquired over time. For example, tying shoes, driving cars, writing essays, designing a website can be an example of skills to convince people.

Interests are activities that one likes to do. Our interests are activities that we are willing to do and are happy to do. Talents and skills are more observable. The best way of recognizing interest is through tests of interest. Examples of interest to literature interest, sports interest, mechanical interest social interest, ...

Personality traits express how a person behaves, that is, what kinds of behaviors he develops through emotions, thoughts, behaviors and habits. There are approximately 18,000 words defined about personality traits. These words have been extracted from various researches and reduced to 3500. How many personality traits can you count about yourself? Our personality is formed by the innate characteristics and environmental interaction. Our personality is formed by the innate characteristics and environmental interaction. Examples of personality traits, energetic, distant, moving, stagnant, friendly, conservative, tense, stubborn,

Values ​​are our sources of intrinsic motivation. Our values ​​are invisible, unlike fingerprints and DNA. It is in our heads and in our hearts. It directs our behavior and decisions, and may change over time. Whether we are aware or not, our values ​​are an important factor affecting our decisions. Professional values ​​eg economic gain, dignity, competition, risk taking, leadership, regularity travel, safety, outreach ...

Do we live to work or work to live?

Whatever your answer to this question, business life is an indispensable dimension of life. Your life and career are like a dancing couple. What is happening in your life affects your work and career; like marrying, having a child or continuing a training ... Your career and life are like two dancers dancing in harmony, your values ​​are the music that accompanies them. Because values ​​shape your career and decisions you make in your life.

Sociological factors:

Environmental factors. Family is the most determinant of these factors.

Family: The results of the study indicate that children are most affected by parents when choosing a profession. At this point, family effects can be positive or negative. It can include positive impact, develop skills and skills, provide opportunities for the child with interests, help him / her to get to know the career world, and talk about professions without prejudice. Negative impact can be listed as pressure on the child, not giving the right to speak, and having unrealistic expectations. In such a case, a balance must be struck between students' own wishes and family expectations.

Socioeconomic level: The socioeconomic strength of the family may be the determinant of the opportunities offered to the child. It is seen that families with high socioeconomic strength provide their children with longer-term, more cost-effective educational opportunities and support their children more in career support activities.

Gender: There is no balanced distribution of occupations in terms of gender, not only in our country, but in many parts of the world. For example, teachers, nurses are more women, engineers, managers are more men ... While this trend stems from culture, the roles of men and women differ in the changing business world. It would be more appropriate to act with this awareness during the career planning stage.

Economic and political factors: The economic conditions of the country, the shortage of employment or the probability of employment in certain areas, and the determination of employment policies accordingly may affect career planning. Sociological factors should be considered as much as psychological factors in career planning stage.