ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS: A STUDY OF FINAL-LEVEL MANAGEMENT STUDENTS AT STIE LATIFAH MUBAROKIYAH
Keywords:
Academic Procrastination, Employability Skills, Final-Year Students, Management Education, Quantitative AnalysisAbstract
This study aims to analyze the effect of academic procrastination on the employability skills of final-year students in the Management Study Program at STIE Latifah Mubarokiyah. This research is motivated by the demands of an increasingly competitive workforce, which requires college graduates to have adequate employability skills to prepare them for entering the workforce.
Academic procrastination is a behavior that needs attention because it is related to time management, academic responsibility, and students' readiness to develop work skills. This study used a quantitative method with a simple linear regression analysis using Orange Data Mining software (Demšar et al., 2013). The study population was 102 final-year students, with a sample of 60 respondents using a total sampling technique. Data collection was carried out using a Likert-scale questionnaire, while instrument testing included validity and reliability tests. The results showed that academic procrastination had a negative and significant effect on students' employability skills.
This finding illustrates that the higher a student's academic procrastination, the lower their employability skills.
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