Companies and organizations are struggled to find well-prepared, capable,
and skilled workers. Most of graduates from Indonesia are half-baked. Most of them
are lack of qualification standards, capabilities, and language skills. In order to
success, graduates should have a work readiness. Also, career development is
needed to increase the capabilities, skills, attitude, and responsibilities.
Correspondingly, the company will be more effective and efficient to achieve
targets.
This research aims to analyze the influence of work readiness to career
development. The research object is Telkom University diploma and bachelor
graduates that has worked in 2015 and 2016. This research is expected to provide
insight, suggestion, and conclusion as contributions to Telkom University.
To reach the research objectives, this research applies a quantitative method.
This research uses questionnaire as the data collection tool with the Likert interval
scale. This tool is used to measure opinion, attitude, and perception of an individual
or group of people about a social phenomenon. By this tool, the respondents define
the agreement and disagreement towards the statement through the scale.
The data analysis technique are descriptive analysis method, correlation test,
and simple regression analysis. By the results of this research, work readiness
affects Telkom University graduates positively on career development by 8.5%.
Also, the relationship between work readiness and career development is 30.1%
means in the level of weak. Also, the influence of work readiness towards career
development among Telkom University graduates is around 9.1%. In other words,
still 90.9% remaining in another aspects or variables that is not in this research.
Keyword: work readiness, career development