Abstract
Preliminary study in Trenggalek city showed that there was a mismatch between the students’ skills learned at vocational high schools with their fields of work. It indicated that the role of vocational career center as a mediator between school and industry have not maximally yet. This study aimed to (1) describe how the vocational career center do its jobdesk, (2) categorize its performance, and (3) find the deficiency from the implementation of a career center in vocational high schools. The data analysis used a descriptive analysis from both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The result of study showed that the jobdesk of career center were collecting graduates databases, grouping the students who want to look for a job or study to higher education, and facilitating the students and world of work in the labour recruitment process. The performance of career center in Trenggalek Regency was good. From some predictors, those were job vacancy information, cooperation with world of work, alumni networking, data collection, communication between alumni, and alumni contribution, the career center’s aspect that need to be upgraded was the cooperation with the world of work.
Highlights
Vocational high schools focus on the development of knowledge and skills in the world of work and increasing work productivity, sustainable life, self development, and sosial economy development [1]
This study showed that the performance of career center in state vocational high schools were good from input, process, and output dimension but generally the performance categorize was low
Based on an interview and close questionnaire about the performance of career center, the coordinator of career center explained the process of the career center in the vocational high school in Trenggalek Regency
Summary
Vocational high schools focus on the development of knowledge and skills in the world of work and increasing work productivity, sustainable life, self development, and sosial economy development [1]. Vocational education was designed to develop skills, ability, comprehension, attitude, work habit, dan appreciation needed by workers to enter the work and to make some progresses on their job usefully and productively. Kuswana [2] explain that vocational education has special basic values. It is about the relationship between gaining knowledge, skills and attitude with creating values, especially related withs skill needed in the world of work. One of vocational education characteristics is preparing the students to enter the world of work. The workforce preparation of vocationa students have to based on demands driven principal to adjust the need of world of Works the communication between schools and industry about the need of labour is important to established link and match between education and world of work
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