Analysis of Suitability Between Professions and Educational Backgrounds: Preliminary Study of Professional Identity

摘要

Professional identity is a description of how individuals refer to themselves as a professional, and consists of a set of expectations developed by individuals about themselves and their abilities, based on their experience and personal background. Personal abilities and background are related to the potential or strength possessed and development in the scientific field that is involved. Doing work in accordance with the field that comes from self-potential, of course will have a different impact on individuals who do work not in accordance with the potential they have. However, based on a 2014 survey, as many as 87 percent of Indonesian students felt they were in the wrong direction. This research is a preliminary study (preliminary study) that will use questionnaire as an instrument in the professional suitability analysis process with an educational background. Then the researchers divided the respondents into classifications which were divided into 3 levels, namely high school students, under-graduate students, and graduate students. This study was only addressed to respondents in the classification level of graduate students. The results of the analysis show that the respondents included in the classification graduate students have a high level of understanding of their personality potential, thus giving an impact on the level of professional suitability with their educational background. In other words, the respondents did not feel 'wrong in their majors' in their scientific fields. But what about the results of understanding personality concepts in high school students and under-graduate students.