Abstract
This descriptive study aims to find out the novice counselors’ work readiness. To this end, fifty-four novice counselors graduated from the guidance and counseling department of Ahmad Dahlan University were recruited. The data were collected using a work readiness scale and analyzed using a quantitative descriptive technique. The result showed that the school counselors’ strongest aspect lay in work attitude, while the weakest aspect lay in interpersonal communication. Based on the focus group discussion, novice counselors still faced some difficulties when providing guidance and counseling services at school. The most frequently found obstacles were their ability to deal with the students’ mental, assertiveness, group counseling services, collaboration service, and service management. This study can be used as the basis to develop a service or training strategy to improve the novice counselors’ work readiness.
Highlights
Globalization does influence the working world as it demands more competitive human resources in any sector
Unemployment in Indonesia is experienced by university graduates, those with lower educational backgrounds
Considering the importance of counselors’ work readiness, this study aims to find out the work readiness among novice counselors who graduated from the guidance and counseling department of Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
Summary
Globalization does influence the working world as it demands more competitive human resources in any sector. In this regard, one of the high education institution’s responsibilities is to develop workforce competence. University graduates are expected to have adequate competence when entering the working world Failure to meet this demand is likely to result in unemployment. Agustiyani (2019) cites data issued by Statistics Indonesia that in August 2019, Unemployment in Indonesia increased from 7 million to 7.05 million. Of this considerable number, 5.67% of unemployed people were university graduates. High unemployment rate does lead to economic issues and social issues such as poverty and social vulnerability
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