Analisis Peluang Kelayakan Kerja (Employability) Lulusan Kesejahteraan Sosial sebagai Praktisi Sumber Daya Manusia (Human Resources) di Industri

Abstract

The issue of graduate employability is not a new phenomenon. This is an ongoing problem that needs to be considered by educational institutions as they adapt to the ever-increasing labor market competition in the industry. Calls for certain expertise and specializations continue to be industry expectations and ultimately have a negative impact on graduates who are pursuing a general type of major. This study aims to determine whether a social welfare graduate has a large or small chance of being eligible to be a human resources practitioner in the industry. This research is qualitative and uses descriptive data analysis techniques. This study uses graduates majoring in social welfare in Indonesia as subjects, with data collection techniques through library studies, internet-based research, as well as field studies that included interviews and observations with practitioners of human resources in several industries as informants. Based on the results of the study, the authors concluded that the opportunity for social welfare graduates to become practitioners in human resources feasibility exists. In the discussion, the factors that influence the magnitude of the opportunity are: first, the views of human resources practitioners in the industry towards social welfare graduates are still not optimal, but when human resources practitioners already know in detail about social welfare and its graduates, practitioners tend to believe in the skills possessed by social welfare graduates. This is evidenced by the second factor found in the discussion, that the skills of social welfare graduates are sufficient enough for a career in the field of human resources. Furthermore, the third factor is how the industry is actually quite open to hiring graduates of any education for positions in human resources as long as these graduates possess the competencies required by the industry. This certainly can help alleviate the fourth factor found: the level of market competition for positions in human resources is quite competitive. With the sufficiency of industry openness and competencies that social welfare graduates possess, they can easily compete in the human resources job market.