The Influence of Educational Mismatch on Future Career Perspectives with Generation as a Moderating Variable

Septiani Arbania, David Manafe, Mariano Firmansyah

Abstract


Research this aims to test whether the influence of educational mismatch on future career perspective, and to test how generation influences educational mismatch on future career perspective. The population in this research is the workforce included in the category of Generation Y and Z. The method used is a quantitative method through questionnaire distribution. The number of respondents involved in this study is as many as 130 workers. Testing was done with the method of Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA). Test results of this study show that educational mismatch does not have a significant influence on the future career perspective of the workforce in Indonesia. Generation Y and Z apparently can influence the occurrence of educational mismatch with work toward future career perspective, meaning Generation Y and Z increasingly have the view that educational background is not too important in their future career.


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Generation, Career, Mismatch, Education.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.31004/jele.v10i4.1036

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