ANALYSIS OF MARITIME STUDENTS' CAREER EXPECTATIONS IN MARITIME SECTOR AND PERCEPTIONS OF SECTOR WORKING CONDITIONS

Abstract

The quality of the human resource sought due to increasing competition and technological innovations with globalization is changing. Especially the quality of the workforce in the maritime sector which is an international commercial activity has a shape according to the terms of the international dynamics and difficult working conditions of this sector. In this sense, the viewpoints about maritime sector of the students who has maritime education, how they perceive the conditions of the sector and finding out the personal career expectations is becoming increasingly important.
The aim of this study is to determine how marine education students perceive the conditions of maritime sector at higher education and secondary education levels and determine the career expectations of working in the sector. For this purpose, collected data from marine students through questionnaire were analyzed with the help of SPSS 21 program. For evaluating of the data of the survey; descriptive analyzes, factor analyzes, reliability analyzes, ANOVA and multiple linear regressions analyze have been used. According to research findings, it was determined that maritime students had significant differences in terms of education level, maritime students' working conditions, and that the desire to make a career in the maritime industry affects the most wage-income dimension.