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The purpose of this study is to compare the situation before and during the COVID-19 global pandemic, which deeply affected the world and caused significant changes in working life, to reveal the career assessment of young people and the changes in digital entrepreneurship intentions with the increase in the importance and prominence of digital technologies. The data within the scope of the research were obtained from 407 students studying at four different faculties of Akdeniz University. In the context of the research, nine hypotheses were developed and in testing these hypotheses correlation analysis, paired samples t test, independent sample t test, One Way ANOVA and structural equation modeling were used. The results of the research showed that the career assessment of young people in the pre-COVID-19 period were not related to digital entrepreneurship intentions, but that career assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic were weakly related to digital entrepreneurship intention. On the other hand, while there was no significant difference between the career assessment of young people regarding the pre-COVID-19 period and the career assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was found that there was a significant difference in digital entrepreneurship intentions. Path analysis conducted with the help of structural equation modeling showed that individual career assessments of young people regarding pre-COVID-19 and the course of COVID-19 do not have a significant impact on their digital entrepreneurship intentions regarding pre-COVID-19 and during the COVID-19. This study has a unique quality in that it examines career evaluations and digital entrepreneurship intentions together in the light of young people's perceptions, especially regarding the pre-COVID-19 and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, it is thought that the “Individual Career Evaluation Scale for Youth”, which was compiled based on the literature, and whose reliability analysis, explanatory and confirmatory factor analyzes were carried out, will be useful to researchers in future studies.

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