Abstract
Career planning is a process that needs to be prepared to achieve career goals. However, since many students have not been able to determine their goals, they often fail in making career decision and planning. Thus, the current study was done to describe Senior High School students’ needs for a blended learning-based career information service model. It was conducted by having a qualitative survey design with Focused Group Discussion (FGD) method participated by 10 Guidance and Counseling teachers through MGBK or Guidance and Counseling Teacher Forum in Demak Regency and career planning scale distributed to 150 students to obtain the descriptive data. After the analysis, it was found that student’s career planning ability is categorized low and counselors experience some difficulties in sharing career information, particularly in terms of available time and method. In this way, career information content developers are suggested to provide digital content of career information so that students can access it outside school hours.
Highlights
Career guidance is one of guidance services aimed to assist students in deciding career direction based on their character and potential
There were 130 students having low category of career planning ability and 20 of them were in the medium category
It is known that there are still numerous challenges faced by Guidance and Counseling teachers in providing career guidance service for the students of Public Senior High School in Demak Regency so that the students’ career planning ability tends to be low
Summary
Career guidance is one of guidance services aimed to assist students in deciding career direction based on their character and potential. In this globalization era, there are numerous chances and challenges students will face during career selection and planning. According to (Hidayati, 2015), career information service can help students improve career understanding, guidance, and assistance optimally. As a result, they will be able to precisely recognize their own characteristics, talents, interests, aspirations, various strengths, and weaknesses in themselves which later help to determine the chosen career
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