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Student career adaptability refers to the critical abilities of individuals in directing the decision- making process in the world of work pursuing their career paths. This study aimed to examine the influence of the proactive personality variable on the career adaptability mediated by the self-efficacy variable. Using census technique, bachelor’s degree students who were registered at Accounting, Development Studies, and Management Departments of the Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitas Bengkulu in the second semester of their third year and above were sampled and surveyed. Data were collected using a set of questionnaires and distributed through hand-delivered survey and web survey methods. After screening for the missing values, 522 questionnaires were valid for further analysis. Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis (HMRA) was employed to analyse the data gathered, the results showed that The ability to identify opportunies, the showing initiative, the taking action, and persisitent dimensions of the proactive personality variable influenced partially and simultaneously on the career adaptability and had the positif effects. Similarly, the four dimensions of the proactive personality variable influenced positif on the self-efficacy variable. The self-efficacy had an effect on the career adapatability, but it was partially positif on the self-assessment, the future plans, and the problem solving dimensions. The self-efficacy received the partial mediation. Only the self-assessment, the future plans, and the problem solving mediated the relationship between the ability to identify opportunies and the showing initiative of the proactive personality and the career adapatibility. Because the results meant that the students should develop their self-confidence to increase the level of self-efficacy for the readiness of their careers. The personality possessed could be the basis for the students to increase career adaptability by increasing self-efficacy that can motivate themselves. It was recommended that the students should seek career information from various sources, take opportunities to develop themselves and were not easily desparate in facing various obstacles.
Keywords: Proactive Personality, Career Adaptability, Self-Efficacy, University’s Students
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