Employability and Immersion Performance of Technical Vocational Senior High School Students

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

For the past few years of social and economic development, wherein business is considered as one of the factors that affect the economy, industry immersion and business partners play important roles in the performance of Technical Vocational students. Graduates must have appropriate skills to be employed. Without personal attributes and understanding, the student will not be able to find a job. In this regard, the researchers assessed the level of employability of the Technical Vocational graduates as a result of their industry immersions and business partners.

METHODS

The research design used in this study is a Survey-Descriptive Method which involve the collection of data in order to answer the questions whether the immersion had any effect on the employability of Technical Vocational senior high school graduates. An adopted-research questionnaire was used to gather information needed for the study. The researchers utilized descriptive and inferential statistics in analyzing and interpreting gathered data.

RESULTS

The graduate-respondents have high mean performance in their immersion to industry and business partners. The mean level assessment of the graduates about their employability in terms of communication skills have an average mean level. Human relation skills and information technology skills have high mean level of assessment while problem-solving skills and critical thinking skills have a low level of assessment. Furthermore, the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between the immersion performance of graduates and their employability skills in terms of communication skills and human relation skills.

DISCUSSIONS

The results of the mean performance of the graduate-respondents in their immersion implies that they worked well in the tasks given to them. The study also shows that the employability of the respondents in terms of communication skills, human relation skills, and information technology skills was very evident in their performance in their immersion. The relationship between the immersion performance and the employability of the graduates imply that their skills were affected by their immersion in industries and business partners. Finally, it was concluded that the more skilled the respondents, the higher their performance in immersion.