The Effectiveness of Professional Certification National Agency’s Competency Certificate in Supporting A Successful Work World

Abstract

Tight competition for entering work world requires the prospective workers to master or to have certain skill. The recognition of skill includes not only skill mastered and explained to the prospective service users in the interview, but it needs strong evidence issued by an official institution, in this case National Agency for Professional Certification (Indonesian: Badan Nasional Sertifikasi Profesi or BNSP). This research aims to reveal the recognition and appreciation given by employers or industrial business to BNSP’s competency certificate. In addition, it also aims to reveal the experience of certificate holders and the advantage of BNSP’s competency certificate in entering work world. Data mining was carried out using interview, observation, and documentation. Data analysis was conducted using an interactive method. The result of research shows that the employers and the Industrial World recognize and appreciate well the BNSP’s competency certificate. The companies pay substantial attention to the competency certificate the job applicants have and their placements. However, for certain reason, some companies have not considered competency certificate in personnel placement. In addition, the experience the holders of certificate have related to the advantage of BNSP’s competency certificate in entering into work world indicates varying treatments given by the companies. Some companies perceive that it is necessary to consider competency certificate owned in admitting and placing their employees. Meanwhile, some others have not considered it yet. Even they place the employees not according to their specialty, so that they should attend training first before placement