Soft skills Analysis of Labor Candidates to face ASEAN Economic Community

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze soft skills from the aspect of communication skills and problem solving skills by analyzing the factors, which have the variables form. This research is a kind of quantitative research with analytical technique using standard mean and standard deviation. Hypothesis testing is done by one-party t-test. The method used in this research is survey method. The populations in this research are all students accounting majors class XII of State Vocational High School in industrial area as prospective worker with a sample from school selected by stratified random sampling in the academic year 2016/2017. While the student sample selection is done by random sampling. Questionnaire data collection is done by giving a set of questions or written statement to the respondent to be answered. The analysis of the research results shows that soft skills from the aspects of communication skills and problem-solving skills are included in the high category.