CHAPTER 1 ‘The Problem and It’s Background 1.1 Introduction Our country suffers from multifarious crisis such as socioeconomic crisis, political crisis, and as well as financial crisis which is greatly affected by global economic crisis. Despite of all these crises, Filipinos are imaginative, creative, and courageous 10 surpass these obstacles in everyday life. Even though there are some companies affected by these crises which they are force to decrease their employees called as “recession”, some of them have job openings that offer new career opportunities to graduated college students. These job openings also. offers a new challenge into the life — a great responsibility lies to his hand that someday will help his family strive to achieve wealthiest, use his acquired knowledge and skills when he engage into a job, and acted as one of the reinforcements in industry that would further improved the depleting economy of the country. All of these, comes first from wishes and aspirations that arises during childhood years that someday he or she will become a doctor, an architect, a teacher, a police, or an attomey to help those seek needs and help their family to ascend into poverty. According to Ginzberg and his associates' , during the fantasy period play gradually becomes work-oriented and reflects initial preferences for certain kind of es. This stage is the preparation for a child’s highly organized social life they will be required to adjust when they enter the first grade. Career preferences are free opportunity to select a desired career. It is also a decision-making in a confusing uation which occurs during the senior year of high *Zunker, Vernon. Career Counseling: Applied Concepts of Life Planning (5"* Edition). Brooks / Cole Publishing Company: 511 Forest Lodge Road Pacific Grove, CA 93950, 1998; p. 30.