EFFECT OF STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN PROCESSED FISHERY TECHNOPARK ON STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS Anggi Nurmalasari, Siti Mujdalipah, Mustika NH
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
Todays industry is in dire need of a workforce who is competent, trained, and ready to work. Employment recruitment by companies currently prioritizes employability skills rather than hard skills. Vocational High Schools (SMK) must improve the quality of students in preparing a skilled middle-level workforce through the implementation of technoparks. Technopark not only complements student competencies, but also develops character and work attitudes such as discipline, responsibility, honesty, cooperation, and leadership that are needed by the business world. This study aims to 1) determine the level of employability skills and 2) determine the effect of student participation in technopark on the level of students employability skills. This research is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach. The sample of this research was students in grade 12 of the agribusiness study program of fisheries products at the Vocational School 1 Mundu, Cirebon, Indonesia in the 2019/2020 school year. The data collection technique is done through questionnaires that are distributed using google form. The results showed that 1) the employability skills of students who took part in the technopark program were in the very high category and 2) there was an effect of student participation in processed fisheries technoparks on students employability skills.
