Psychological Services and Employability Skills Assessment as Basis for Student Development Plan

This study is focused on the importance of direct psychological services, level of implementation of university activities, and level of employability as basis for a student development plan. It employed sequential explanatory design that incorporates two phases. In selecting the respondents, the researcher used stratified proportional sampling on the first phase and purposive sampling on the second phase. The study involved 380 students for the quantitative phase and 10 for the qualitative phase who came from the different campuses of one state university in Southern Luzon area. The researcher used self- developed assessment known as the Psychological Services Scale (PSS) which covers the direct psychological services and university activities. It also utilized a standardized assessment tool known as Skills to Succeed- Employability Assessment tool (S2S-EAT) and in-depth interview guide. Correlation was used to assessed the quantitative data and thematic analysis using grounded theory for the qualitative data. Results showed that respondents considered direct psychological services as very important and university activities as partly implemented. It is also seen from the results that the students’ employability skills are high. The direct services and university activities; and employability skills were found no significant difference when grouped according to the profile of the respondents. Lastly, it is recommended that the universities should have psychological services that will implement the student development plan that may develop students’ employability skills.

Keywords –direct psychological services and activities, employability skills, student development plan