Mapping of Big Five Personality Traits of Management Students and its Impact on Career Choice

Students of Business Management today have a wide variety of careers to choose from. There are a number
of new age careers like entertainment, logistics, tourism which require management professionals to conduct
their businesses in a professional manner. This study aims to map the Big Five Personality Traits of a select
group of Management students and to analyse the impact of these traits on their career choice.
The study has attempted to map the Big Five Personality Traits of the selected sample of students namely
openness, conscientiousness, Extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism through a descriptive research
design. A simple random sampling has been used and data has been collected from the management students.
The effect of Personality traits on the career choices of students has been analysed with the help of Pearson’s
Correlation, T-Test and Regression Analysis.
It was found through Bivariate correlation analysis personality traits Agreeableness and extraversion has
significant relationship in choosing the career among B-School students. The career options were categorised
for the purpose of analysis into new age careers (Hospital management, Adventures careers, Entertainment,
entrepreneurship) and traditional careers (IT, Management, Business).It was found that some of the personality
traits Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and openness play major role in choosing the careers.
The study has highlighted that students with personality traits of openness and agreeableness opt new age
careers and those with the trait of agreeableness opt for traditional careers. The big five personality traits were
used to predict their influence on career choice through a regression fit. The analysis showed that the Big five
personality traits were able to predict the career choice to great exten