A Tracer Study on the Four Career Exits of Technical Vocational Livelihood (Tvl) Graduates in Camba High School during the SY. 2017-2018

Abstract

Introduction

The Department of Education’s vision under its new curriculum which is the K to 12 Program is “Senior High School (SHS) graduates will become full-fledged contributors to social development and nation-building through deciding on what to continue on the four exits after graduation-employment, entrepreneurship, higher education, or middle-level skills development.”, it is considered necessary to track down the status of the first alumni of Camba Senior High School (CSHS) on their career path after graduation.

Methods

A survey questionnaire as a data-gathering tool was used. The questionnaire was distributed to the 100 graduates under the first batch of TVL Track in Camba Senior High School. The researcher administered the survey through e-mail to the respondents who were not capable of answering in-person. The statistical treatment of data used in this study was through the percentile method and frequency.

Results

Out of the 83 TVL graduates from the strands of Home Economics (HE), Industrial Arts (IA), and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) who participated in the survey, 55 % from them are currently employed in the different industries, while 29 % are pursuing higher education, the 10 % are practicing the Middle-level Skills Development or also known as TESDA courses, the 2 % is in the field of business (entrepreneurship), and the 4 % are unemployed or housekeepers. Graduates had different reasons in choosing what career path to take right after graduating from Senior High School. It was traced that the majority of them considered personal reasons in selecting their present career status while some of them because of financial matter and few accepted their parental and social recommendations. The TVL skills that the graduates found relevant to their chosen career were communication skill as soft skill and cooking skill as a hard skill.

Discussions

The results demonstrate that the first TVL graduates of Camba High School were job and higher education ready as they were hired in different industries and were admitted to colleges/universities. However, there should be a reinforcement of entrepreneurial skills in the learning process to strengthen the young entrepreneur spirit of the graduates. Lifelong skills were acquired by the graduates. They must not focus on one career exit because they can enter other opportunities like being working students or entrepreneurs while studying as long as they want and if such a situation is possible.