The threat of entry of foreign workers into Indonesia has increasingly narrowed employment opportunities in Indonesia. This also has an impact on the Vocational High School (SMK) as an educational institution that produces middle-level skilled workers, so this institution is required to always improve the quality of its graduates according to the standards needed by the business and industrial world which continue to develop along with globalization. On the other hand, data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) shows that there is still a high unemployment rate for SMK graduates, which indicates that SMK graduates lack competitiveness in the business/industry world. This study aims to describe Job Readiness as measured by Core Employability Skills (CES) and Technical Competency. (KT) students of Building Skills Vocational School facing global competition in Ciamis Regency. The combination method was used on a sample of 172 students of Class XII Vocational High School Building Engineering Competency in Ciamis Regency, with the instrument scores, questionnaires, interviews, observations, and documentation. From the results of the study, it was found that CES and KT for vocational students facing global competition, seen from the curriculum, ACSF, and SKKNI targets, they reached the competent category.
The main challenge in the globalization era is competitiveness human resource in all sectors. An effective way to be able to compete by building the quality of human resources through improving the quality of education. Vocational School has a mission to prepare mid-level workforce that is innovative, creative, productive and ready to face global competition. BPS said, the level of open unemployment (TPT) in 2017 at 5.5% of the total working population, and SMK graduates ranked is the highest unemployment at 11.41% of the total TPT. In the point of view, SMK graduates less off competitiveness in the business/industry. The research aims to determine the readiness of vocational students, the efforts made by vocational schools and develop hypothetical models of vocational learning the global competition. The readiness refers to work, continuing education and entrepreneurship. This evaluation research of Goal Free Evaluation Models uses the Explanatory Survey Method. Research instruments are questionnaires, interviews, observations and documentation that will validated by experts and tested validity and reliability. The research will be conducted on vocational students in class XII Building Expertise Competency in Ciamis District with a sample of 172 students.
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