Iqra Natun Nafsiah1, Azwar Indra2, Nurhasan Syah3, Rusdi Sahara4,
Technology Vocational Education and Training Faculty of Engineering Padang State University Iqranatunnafsiah24@gmail.com Azwar_indra52@yahoo.co.id nurhasansyah19608@gmail.com Rusdisahara.vhava@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The high of unemployment rate student graduate from SMK and they not fully have readiness to workforce is the main problem in the research. Even thaugh to from, plan, determine and take decisions after graduating SMK though a career guidance which has been dore counselor teacher (BK) is not fully deliver student to working readiness. Therefore, the research’s objektives is to show how much is the career guidance contribution in the readiness to enter the workforce for class XII’s SMK Negeri 1 Koto XI Tarusan.
This research is a quantitative research with correlationally descriptive approach. The populations are 155 students in the academic year of 2016/2017. The samples of the research are 112 students with using Propotional Random Sampling technique. The instrument of research that is used, that is questionnaires or questionnaires with Likert scale. Experiments are conducted on 30 class XII’s students of SMK Negeri 1 Koto XI Tarusan. Validity test is based on empirical data with Product Moment correlation technique of Pearson, while reliability test uses Cronbach’s Alpha formula.
The result of this research is to prove there is a contribution of career guidance to word readiness of entering the workforce for class XII’s students of SMKN 1 Koto XI Tarusan of academic year 2016/2017, it shows by of correlation coefficient of career guidance to word readiness to enter the workforce amount r hitung is 0.557, significant test value ttest7,033>ttabel 1.98137 and effective contribution of career guidance for 31% howard readiress to enter the workforce.
Keywords: career guidance, job readiness.