Readiness of Vocational School Students to Facing Global Competition

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. Keywords—readiness; vocational school students; global