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Research Paper | Education Management | Indonesia | Volume 8 Issue 1, January 2019

An Improving of the Soft Skills and Hard Skill Abilities for Vocational High Schools Students in Learning Process on Service Production Units

Adi Sutopo | Arif Rahman

Abstract: Vocational High School is expected to produce graduates who have hard skills and soft skills ability that fit the needs of the business community were able to develop the local advantage and global competetion. One of the efforts to increase the ability of vocational students is to develop a service unit production unit as part of the learning process in vocational high school. Model development Service Production Units (SPU's) integrates learning activities and production activities/services are expected to improve the hard skills and soft skills of students as well as produce the goods/ services for consumers. The process of teaching and learning activities in the development of the service Production Units using the project learning model. Learning models project more emphasis on students' independence, although still not be separated from the guidance of teachers to finish the project work as goods/service. The results showed that the learning model projects in the activities of Service Production Units has increased the ability of soft skills, that is: a) marketing capability (search for consumers), b) teamwork, c) approach to communication on the consumer, and d) the ability to analyze the value of the work. While the ability of hard skills was capable of solving the real problems of work (products / services), which according to expectations of consumers.

Keywords: Vocational High School, Soft skills and hard skills, Service Production Units, project learning model

Edition: Volume 8 Issue 1, January 2019,

Pages: 1925 - 1929

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