The Effect of “PLANS” Training Towards Career Maturity of Senior High School Students

Career maturity is defined as the maturity in terms of career decision making, reflected throughindividual attitudes and competencies. Preliminary studies showed that many 12th grade students found difficulties in selecting their university majors. This suggests that many 12th grade students still lacks career maturity. PLANS training was given to 11th grade students of N tutoring agency with the goal ofimproving their career maturity. We hypothesize that PLANS training will increase the career maturity of these students. The experiment used an Untreated Control Group Design with Dependent Pretest and Posttest Samples. In this study, the independent variable is PLANS training, while the dependent variable is career maturity. Thirty students, divided equally into experimental and control group, were involved as participants. The instruments include attitude and competence career maturity scale. ANOVA analysis finding shows a significant change of career maturity scores from pretest to posttest scores in the experimental group. Meanwhile, no significant change was detected from the control group. The contribution of this training is equal to 40.4% in the attitude domain and 62.5% in the competence domain. Our findings show that PLANS training can significantly improve the career maturity of high school students.