Analysis of Interests Level of Employability Skills Indicators in Automotive Business Activities by Labor Graduate of SMK in Makassar City, Indonesia

Abstract

The rapid changes and dynamics of employment in the Indonesian labor sector are the effects of globalization and the technological revolution. The dynamics of work has implications for the importance of adding new skills in the face of competition in the world of work and industry. As a result of the dynamics of technological developments in the rapidly changing world of work, the contribution of vocational education should be optimized with the orientation of employability skills cultivation. Employability skills are closely related to the skills needed by a person, including graduates of SMK (Vocational High School) to be better prepared to enter and compete in the job. Employability skill is an important necessity implanted in vocational students as a prospective workforce to face changes in demands and job structure.This study uses a quantitative approach to explain the perception of automotive workforce of graduates of SMK on the importance of employability skills variable. The research variables consisted of teamwork skills, problem solving, ability to communicate, use of information technology, and implementation of occupational health and safety (OHS) programs. The sample of research as many as 200 people workforce automotive graduate of SMK. Instruments used to collect research data consisted of: questionnaires, observation sheets, and documentation. To analyze the research data used descriptive analysis techniques through the size of a centralized tendency consisting of the lowest score, highest score, mean value, median, and deviation standard. Before the instrument is used to collect research data in advance conducted a trial process with the criteria of analysis using the level of significance of instrument reliability that is Cronbach's Alpha> 0.6. To process the data is done by using SPSS 20 for Windows program.The conclusion of this research is employability skills indicator is considered very important according to vocational automotive business workforce graduate. Thus, consideration should be given to early employability skills for students of SMK as a potential employee by integrating employability skills indicators into the curriculum. Indicators employability skills of the highest level of importance according to the automotive workforce is the skills to use information technology followed by skills to implement OHS programs and communication skills. While the employability skills indicator of the lowest level of importance according to the workforce of automotive business services graduates of SMK are the skills of teamwork.