This study was carried out to examine the possibility of reducing unemployment in Akwa Ibom State using career guidance and counselling interventions. To guide the study, four research questions and four null hypotheses were formulated. Variables such as educational guidance, vocational, personality trait guidance and sociological guidance were used in the investigation. A survey design was used in studying a population of 6509 senior secondary two students in 58 public secondary schools that have guidance counselors, and a sample of 651 who were drawn from 31 public secondary schools to participate in this study as respondents. One school and 21 respondents were studied in each of the 31 local government areas. The result showed that there was significant relationship between reduction of unemployment and career guidance and counselling intervention in Akwa Ibom State. The researcher recommended that, the State Ministry of Education should ensure that each public secondary school has a guidance counsellor in order to reduce students’ career maladjustment which would lead to future unemployment.
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