Vocational Reforms Increasing Graduates Absorption in the Industry World

Abstract

The rise of phenomena related to the disruption of the role of accountants has triggered academic actors to process ingredients so that the continuity of the world of education, especially the accounting study program as a graduate producer, continues. Accounting is a science that is conceptually irreplaceable by machines. Accounting vocational as a study program that seeks to produce graduates who are ready to work or create employment opportunities also needs to make reforms so that the absorption of graduates in the industrial world is more optimal. This study aims to describe cognitively the phenomena that occur in vocational education so that it becomes a reference for the sustainability of accounting vocational in the world of education. The research method used is qualitative research, namely the method by conducting interviews with informants from users of accounting graduates in the city. The data uses triangulation techniques and the data is analyzed inductively. The results showed that vocational was still needed by emphasizing applied accounting scientific skills so that graduates could be easily absorbed by the industrial world