This study aimed to investigate the career planning and job-finding concerns of sports sciences faculty students based certain on socio-demographic characteristics. The sample was chosen through purposive sampling, one of the non-random sampling methods. The study population comprised students from the Faculty of Sport Sciences, with a sample of 206 voluntary participants, 46.7% male and 53.4% female, all enrolled at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Sport Sciences. The "Career Planning Scale” for sports sciences students, developed by Eroğlu and Eroğlu (2020), was utilized to evaluate the career planning levels of the participants. Similarly, the "Sports Sciences Students’ Job Finding Anxiety Scale", developed by Aslan and Uğraş (2021), was used to assess anxiety levels regarding finding a job. In the data analysis, descriptive statistical methods, including frequency and percentage, were employed for personal information. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was performed to determine whether the data showed a normal distribution, revealing a non-normal distribution. Therefore, nonparametric tests -Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal Wallis- were applied. The research findings indicated no statistically significant differences in gender, class, and future anxiety among the sports sciences students. However, a significant disparity was found in the career planning sub-scale “professional awareness” based on the department variable. A significant difference was also observed in the job-finding anxiety scale in terms of gender, age, class, and department variables. In conclusion, career planning and job-finding anxiety levels of sports sciences students varied based on the given socio-demographic characteristics.

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