Psychological readiness & job readiness training: Upaya membangun kesiapan sarjana baru untuk bekerja di era masyarakat ekonomi Asean

Unemployment in Indonesia, especially in human resource competition of MEA era is not only occurring on low educated workforce, but also on higher educated (Bachelor). Whereas, “obtain jobs not more than 4 months after graduating” is one of the performance indicator in University, Fresh Graduate should be the determinant of Organization’s/Company’s sustainability and development. They should have readiness to face the high work demands. Readiness at work, consists of ability (job readiness) and willingness (psychological readiness). The need analysis on Fresh Graduates of PTN-X Bandung shows that most of them need proper training to increase their readiness in entering working world. Therefore, it is important to do readiness training which called “Psychological Readiness and Job Readiness Training” for Fresh Graduate of PTN- X in Bandung. This research is an action research with one group pretest–posttest design experimental approach. The result of this research shows that “Psychological Readiness & Job Readiness Training” program is effective and plays a role in increasing Fresh Graduates’ readiness at work. The Increasing is more on Willingness/Psychological Readiness aspect than Ability/Job Readiness aspect, quite significantly in knowledge and the level of readiness at work.