Identifying the factors influencing career choice of management students (Case study: University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology)

All the leading organizations in trying to discover the secret to attract and hire the valuable human capital and using them to improve their competitive advantages. This secret depends on knowing the values and factors influencing career choice of talents. The purpose of this study is identification and comparative investigation the factors encourage the Management students to choose a career. Research method is descriptive survey and questionnaire is data collection tool. The statistical population is Management students from University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology have studied in Bachelor and Master of Arts. The data sample consisted of 443 Management students and was selected with stratified sampling. Results have shown the most important motivational factors influencing career choice of Management students are "a feeling of accomplishment and achievement, peaceful work environment, personal growth and development, career advancement, high income" and effects variables sex, marital status, education degree and work experience on motivational factors are relatively little.