Students and School Counselors Need Analysis on the Development of Career Planning Guidance in Senior High School

This study aims to describe the needs of students and school counselors for career planning guidance services in senior high school. This study subject is 213 students grade X (ten) at SMAN 1 Dukun Gresik (senior high school) as respondents and 16 school counselors from 12 senior high schools throughout Gresik Regency, East Java, Indonesia. The results of research related to the analysis of student needs show that (1) most students (43.6%) are not aware of their weaknesses and strengths, 50.3% of students do not yet know how to achieve their career goals, and 49.7% of students have not thought about make career plans, (2) most students (61.5%) stated that the facilities at school were inadequate to support student career planning, (3) most students (55.9%) did not know information about future professions/careers that will be selected. Furthermore, the results of research related to the analysis of the needs of counselors show that (1) 16 senior high schools (100%) in Gresik district have implemented a new curriculum in Indonesia called "Merdeka Curriculum", and most of the counselors (81.3%) stated they need one of which is the service module/guidance guidebook, (2) most of the counselors (81.3%) stated that the need for career planning guidance services, was urgently needed and carried out at the tenth grade level of high school, and 75% of counselors said no have career guidance service tools that are arranged systematically in accordance with career theory and have been theoretically tested, (3) Most counselors (62.5%) stated that they really need a guidebook for career planning guidance based on a dream proposal project, and all counselors (100%) stated that he strongly supports the development of a career planning guidance guidebook based on a dream proposal project in the context of implementing the new curriculum. [For the full proceedings, see ED652261.]