Self-Efficacy and Work Readiness in Psychology Department Students

Abstrak

Many companies reject college graduates because they lack experience, individual's abilities do not meet the criteria, and they do not have good work readiness. One of the factors that influences work readiness is self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is an individual's belief in their ability to organize and carry out activities to achieve goals. This research aims to find out how self-efficacy influences student work readiness. This type of research is quantitative research with simple linear regression analysis. The sample used was 101 students of students from the Department of Psychology, class of 2020, at Nusa Cendana University. The research results show that self-efficacy positively and significantly affects work readiness. The higher the self-efficacy, the higher the work readiness; the significance value is 0.000. Self-efficacy and work readiness have a moderate effect size of 0.304.