Career decisions, whether made at the start of professional life or during professional life, are always shaped by an individual's personal qualities as well as environmental and social determinants. This research undertakes the burgeoning task of comparing the nature of these determinants for early-career workers, i.e., graduating business students, with that of the established career professionals with several years of work experience already. We investigate the influence of various personality features, i.e., the big five personality traits and personal resilience in the presence of distinct socioeconomic and support elements on the early career decisions by the final year graduating business students in Pakistan. Rooted in the trait activation perspective, we compare the three distinct career decisions, i.e., entrepreneurial career decisions, job career decisions, and the hybrid career decisions using multinomial logistic regression. Results indicate that apart from the hybrid career decisions being the most favorite among these individuals, the hybrid-career workers and would-be entrepreneurs differ in shades of both the personality features as well as the socioeconomic factors. High personal resilience and extraversion guide the hybrid career decisions for these aspirant graduates while the presence of business family background and the crisis-laden personal experience are likely to influence an entrepreneurial career decision. Individuals high in neuroticism as expected, show an inclination towards traditional job careers. The research concludes with useful implications for both theory and practice.