Exploring Tracer Study Service in Career Center Web Site of Indonesia Higher Education

TL;DR

This paper examines the implementation of tracer study services on Indonesian higher education career center websites, highlighting their role in assessing educational effectiveness and improving labor market alignment.

Contribution

It introduces a web-based tracer study service for Indonesian universities, enhancing data collection and analysis for educational success and labor market relevance.

Findings

Tracer study websites increase traffic and user engagement.

They provide valuable data on graduate employment and salary.

Web-based tracer studies support university policy and curriculum improvement.

Abstract

Quality competence of worker the present do not meet labor market criteria and the low level of labor productivity, the lack of communication between the labor market with education, changing of socio-economic structure and global political influence labor market, the development of science and technology very rapidly lead to fundamental changes in terms of qualifications, competencies and requirements for entering the workforce. Tracer Study results can be used by universities to determine the success of the educational process that has been done towards their students. Therefore, universities need a technology services to support the optimization of the use of tracer study. One of that is the use of a website to facilitate the conduct tracer study. Most services tracer study provides information to college, like year graduated, got a job waiting period, the first salary to work, first job, the relevance of the curriculum to the work, and compliance with the major areas of work taken in college. Tracer study feature in Career Center Website affect the popularity website especially in traffic and rich file website.