Abstract
Career aspiration is decisive choice of work, it is beyond a mere wishes. Therefore, there is need for students to make a thorough career enquiry and planning before a choice of career. This paper examined parent’s socio-economic status on career aspiration of senior secondary school students’ in Nasarawa West senatorial district, Nasarawa State. The population of the study comprised all 22,320 SS one students in 96 public senior secondary schools in Nasarawa West Senatorial District. Convenient sampling technique was employed to select the respondents. Krecie and Morgan table was used to get the sample size of 377 students as respondent. Survey research design was adopted for the study which involves the retrieving of data from selected respondents representing the entire population. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study employed quantitative research strategies in analyzing the data. Data was gathered through questionnaire titled ‘Parents Social-Economic status Questionnaire’ (PSESQ). Cronbach's alpha coefficient analysis was used to measure the internal consistency of the questionnaire. The Descriptive statistics mean and standard deviation scores were used for answer the research questions while independent t test statistic was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The result showed high positive correlation between parent’s socio-economic status and career aspiration of senior secondary school students’ in Nasarawa West Educational Zone Nasarawa State. Base on the findings, among many, it was recommended that School counsellors should interact with parents so as to avoid forcing careers on their children rather encourage their children to pursue careers that align with their wards interests. This can help students to be more productive in their academic work which enhance their total development. Therefore, parents should desist from compelling their children in chosen those careers that they do not possess such capabilities, talents, interests of aptitude

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