Based on BPS in 2019, the highest middle class unemployment force is for SMK graduates, which is 11.24% of the total 7 million people. Based on this, it can be seen that the purpose and function of this vocational high school is not yet well underway, because with a ratio of 51% of Vocational High Schools and 49% of the total number of students absorbed by the industrial world to SMK graduates, only 35% 65%.

 

The main objective of SMK is to prepare students as prospective workers who have readiness to enter the workforce. This study aims: (1) to analyze there is a positive influence between industry work experience on work readiness; (2) to analyze there is a positive influence between work interest on work readiness; (3) to analyze there is a positive influence between self-confidence in work readiness; (4) to analyze there is a positive influence between industry work experience, work interest and mutual confidence in work readiness.

 

This research was an ex post facto study. The study population consisted of students who were carrying out industrial work practices in the official workshop of Indomobil Nissan Datsun in East Java in 2019. Data collection techniques were in the form of questionnaires for industrial work experience experience variables (Xâ‚), work interest (Xâ‚‚) and self-confidence ( X₃), and for the work readiness variable there are three domains, cognitive and psychomotor domains, data collection in the form of tests, and affective domain variables in the form of observation. Data analysis of this study using multiple regression and assisted using SPSS for Windows.

 

The results of this study are expected to: (1) there is a positive influence between industry work practice experience on work readiness; (2) there is a positive influence between work interest on work readiness; (3) there is a positive influence between self-confidence in work readiness; and (4) there is a positive influence between industry work experience, work interest and mutual confidence in work readiness for vocational students implementing industrial work practices at Indomobil Nissan Datsun in East Java in 2019.