The Relationship Between Soft Skills and Job Readiness of Industrial Mechanical Engineering Students at SMK Pasundan 2, Serang City

Abstract

This study aims to identify the relationship between soft skills and job readiness among 12th-grade students in the Industrial Mechanical Engineering program at SMK Pasundan 2, Serang City. The research method used is a correlational study with a quantitative approach. The research was conducted at SMK Pasundan 2, Serang City, involving all 30 students from the 12th-grade Industrial Mechanical Engineering program as respondents, selected using a saturated sampling technique. Data collection was carried out through the distribution of questionnaires. The data analysis techniques used include validity testing, reliability testing, normality testing, and non-parametric hypothesis testing. The results of the analysis show that the Spearman's rho correlation coefficient is 0.648 with a significance of 0.000. Since the significance value is less than 0.05, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between the soft skills variable (X) and job readiness (Y).