Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol.6, No.9
Publication Date: Sep. 25, 2019
DoI:10.14738/assrj.69.7079.
Murniarti, E., & Siahaan, L. I. (2019). Millennials’ Career Decision-Making Difficulties (CDMD) IN Indonesian University Students.
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 6(9) 268-276.
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Millennials’ Career Decision-Making Difficulties (CDMD) IN
Indonesian University Students
Erni Murniarti
Educational Management Program,
Universitas Kristen Indonesia
Lydia Irene Siahaan
Communication student,
Telkom University
ABSTRACT
Though millennial has unique characteristics as digital natives who prefer to interact
with images, branded goods, to have idols and who are interested in modern
technological utilization, studying their career decision-making difficulties (CDMD) is
barely reported in Indonesia. To respond to such gap, the current report was designed
to pattern the CDMD of both male (N = 120) and female (N = 140) undergraduate
students in Indonesia. The instrument of the research was totally adopted from Gati et
al's. (1996) career decision-making difficulties questionnaire. Descriptive anaylsis
showed that the male (M = 4.93) have higher difficulties than the females (M = 4.85).
With different levels of difficulties, the current study, therefore, corresponds to Mau's
(2004), Guan et al's. (2015), and di Fabio, Palazzeschi, Levin, Levin, and Gati's (2015)
reports.
Keywords: career decision-making difficulties, Indonesian university students, millennial
INTRODUCTION
Prior to job performance, job seekers, fresh graduates, and undergraduate students need to
decide a preferred job type. Aside from the development of the effectiveness and efficiency of
career counseling (Gati & Levin, 2014) performed by professionals, it is due to the fact that the
career decision is significant for individual and society (Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996). It is also
because people with good career plans are more likely to have lower career decision-making
difficulties (henceforth CDMD), and higher career decision-making self-efficacy and vocational
decision-making style (Amir & Gati, 2006).
Regardless of extensive study on the CDMD pioneered by Gati, Krausz, and Osipow (1996), it is
certain to conclude that people are more likely to have different levels of the CDMD, and are
monitored by various variables across countries. Mau (2004), for example, studied the CDMD
of White, African, Hispanic, and Asian American high school and university students in U.S. It
was reported that Asian Americans outperformed career decision-making difficulties, and
White American perceived the fewest obstacles. Compared to Americans, Guan et al. (2015)
emphasized that Chinese undergraduates had a better ability in consulting, desire to please
others, willingness to compromising, dependence, procrastination, and have lower aspiration
for occupation, internal locus of control, and decision making. In light of the Chinese consulting
with others, Willner et al. (2015) reported that it is used to reduce the CDMD. Moreover, di
Fabio, Palazzeschi, Levin, Levin, and Gati, 2015) claimed that for Italian young adults,
university students are more likely to have less developmental career indecision that of high
school students and on-the-job training (OJT) interns.