Efektifitas career decision-making course dalam upaya menanggulangi kesulitan siswa untuk mengambil keputusan karier

Abstract

Prodi Sarjana Psikologi, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia Entering the transition period from early adolescence to late adolescence, senior high school students oftentimes experience uncertainty in determining what they should do after completing their education. This research aimed to examine the effectiveness of the Career Decision-Making Course (CDMC) as an intervention to deal with senior high school students' career decision-making difficulties. The three main categories of career decision-making difficulties investigated in this research included lack of readiness, lack of information, and inconsistency of information. Participants were 35 private high school students in the city of Bandung. The effectiveness of CDMC was tested through a pretest-posttest only design experiment. The results revealed that CDMC was effective in helping students deal with career decision-making difficulties, especially those related to lack of readiness and lack of information. However, CDMC did not significantly reduce the difficulty originating from the problem of inconsistency of information. The findings in this research imply that senior high school students should be provided with adequate information about various alternative careers that they can choose so that they are ready to determine the next step after finishing their education.