EFFECT OF PERSONALITY TRAITS ON CAREER GROWTH COMPETENCIES OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION GRADUATES OF POLYTECHNICS IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIAN
DAVID O. EDU, ETELBERT E. AYANG

ABSTRACT
The Polytechnic curriculum in Nigeria has been assessed to unduly emphasize the cognitive and psychomotor skills to the detriment of affective skills. This study aimed at assessing the extent to which building construction graduates possess such Career Growth competencies as resourcefulness, enthusiasm, initiative, ambition, efficiency, perseverance, decision making, independence, determination, accuracy, punctuality, creativity, devotion and interest. One research question was asked and one hypothesis formulated to guide the study while a 14 item questionnaire was used to answer and analyse them. The population of the study was 163 made up of 78 lecturers, 40 managers and 45 project supervisors. Using survey research design, stratified and purposive sampling techniques, data were obtained from the 3 polytechnics in Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Rivers states. Analysis of data using descriptive statistics and one way ANOVA revealed that career growth competencies, were highly needed by construction workers for effective performance. Furthermore, existing polytechnic graduates do not adequately possess the required career growth competencies. It was recommended among others, that conscious effort be made to develop curriculum materials that will help students acquire these identified career growth competencies and incorporate same into the current National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) curriculum.

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