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Publication Date: 2019
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Examining the Relevance of Indonesian Vocational High School Career Outcomes to the Labor Market
Hambali, IM
Journal of Social Studies Education Research, v10 n1 p133-155 2019
When coping with the tight competition in the Asian Economic Community, career guidance from educators can be very beneficial to students. This research looks at vocational high schools in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia and aims to: see the attainments of vocational school graduates in labor markets, analyze guidance-counseling program to bridge students' student's outcome and labor market, and the partnership systems for connecting with their stakeholders as users of labor. This research employed mixed qualitative and quantitative methods with an explorative survey. The findings reveal that graduates achieve successful attainment in labor market in three areas: variety of jobs, satisfied standard competence in job market, and satisfied income. However, in preparing production markets, most schools lack: loyal customer bases for production outputs, marketing networks, and show rooms; adequate promotional efforts for their production outputs; personnel for quality assurance activities, resulting in graduates being unprepared for employment; and adequate industry support for production, such as by outsourcing production to schools' production units. Half of schools have employed liaison officers to seek orders from industrial partners or companies for joint production, and such staff have been key in empowering school committees to enlarge their partnership networks.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational High Schools, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market, High School Graduates, Employment Patterns, Income, Vocational Education, Job Satisfaction, Quality Assurance, Partnerships in Education, Entrepreneurship, Career Guidance
Journal of Social Studies Education Research. Serhat Mah. 1238/2 Sok. 7B Blok 12 Ostim, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey; Web site: http://jsser.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indonesia
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