The Manufacturing Industries Needs Analysis For Manufacturing Technology Certificate Graduates

Abstrak

Manufacturing industries need for potential worker that suit himself quickly. The cause of the need is, its technology is fast changing, thus worker must be able to cope with the changes. Therefore, need analysis based on the issue with the aim to answer three research questions are required. A case study using need analysis in this paper is subject to Manufacturing Technology Certificate program at the Kepala Batas Community College, particularly the graduates as the potential worker to the industry. The research questions cover the observation of program content, graduate suitability at work, job clarity, further study suitability, and industry perceives on the studied program and graduate. The questions answered the comparative of the studied program syllabus and structure used in previous and current time. Survey and Questionnaire method is applied to answer the question. Later, the program training suitability and present situational are analyzed. Two analysis approaches used in this paper is Frequency Distribution and Hypothesis Tests. As the result, both analyses proven that current use of program syllabus and structure are better than the previous one with statistically significant.