Abstract:
The career decision-making process for students requires the maturity of good self-understanding as a teenager, one of the efforts to improve self-understanding is self-verification. Self-verification in career decision-making means that students want subjective accuracy and consistency in their views on their career plans with the help of input from others. This study aims to find out an overview of self-verification in career decision-making in class XII students at SMK Negeri 4 Banjarmasin. Meanwhile, the sub-focus of the problem in this study is to analyze the level of self-verification in career decision making, analyze the general condition of self-verification in career decision making, and describe aspects of career decision making in class XII students at SMK Negeri 4 Banjarmasin. This study used a mixed-method with a descriptive type of research. Quantitative data collection was carried out by spreading questionnaires to a sample of 105 students. Qualitative data collection through interviews was carried out on 5 respondents including 3 students, 1 Guidance and counseling Teacher, and 1 Subject Teacher. The results of this study found that students were able to plan and decide on a career in accordance with self-understanding by paying attention to various aspects of themselves and the surrounding environment as well as from the results of exchanging ideas with others. This shows that this analytical study is effectively used to determine self-verification in making career decisions for class XII students at SMK Negeri 4 Banjarmasin.
