Adolescent’s Career Maturity

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200130.121How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adolescent, career maturity, career program

Abstract

Career maturity is one of the important aspects of supporting one’s career development in the future. Guidance and counseling are an integral part of the education process. One of the development tasks of the adolescent is insight and career preparation. This is related to one of the tasks of adolescent development that must be achieved, recognizing the abilities, talents, interests, and direction of career trends. Career maturity in adolescence is important to support career development in the future. After graduation, they will be forced to decide whether to enroll in higher education or to find a job. Work is an important aspect and part of human desires. Fresh graduate bachelors will step into the next stage of life, as a prospective new worker. The research method uses a survey that describes aspects of adolescent career maturity. The survey was conducted on 150 high school students taken randomly. The research results obtained are profiles of high school students who have a low level of career maturity. Seeing the importance of career maturity in adolescence, the focus of this study is to obtain a career maturity profile as a reference to build career programs that can develop the career maturity of high school students. Career maturity program can be arranged based on the needs of students to develop skills in choosing a career. The program to be prepared, it is suggested to help to understand self-characteristics, also to provide decision-making skills for the choice of majors and careers after graduating from high school according to their interests and abilities.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sugiyarlin
AU  - Mamat Supriatna
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/07
TI  - Adolescent’s Career Maturity
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Psychology and Pedagogy - "Diversity in Education" (ICEPP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 232
EP  - 235
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.121
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.121
ID  - 2020
ER  -