Muchtar Yunus
In Indonesia today, vocational schools, that aim to produce work-ready graduates, face great challenges in terms of students' readiness to perform in the market. Considering this phenomenon, this study is conducted to discover the factors influencing students' readiness to work. The studied factors include innovative learning, school-business partnership, and parents' social status. This study is an explanatory research which uses cross sectional survey approach and structural equation model (SEM) for sampling. The object of this study were Government Business and Management Vocational Schools in South Sulawesi; and the population of study were all third-year students of Business Administration, Accounting, and Commerce Programs who have undergone an Internship training program in the 2010/2011 Academic Year. The findings of the study indicate that innovative learning, schools' partnership with the industry or business, and parents' socio-economic status are of significant impact on students' readiness to work. © 2016 Serials Publications.
Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia
