COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on people's lives in all sectors. Adaptation to go through difficult times is needed so that all parties can survive and find solutions to various difficulties experienced. One way that can be done is by motivating others through writing activities. Karen A. Baikie and Kay Wilhelm (2005) found that writing about traumatic, stressful, and emotional events has an impact on improving physical and psychological health in both clinical and non-clinical populations. Besides, miksilva.com also writes that writing can also heal writers and readers from life pressures and feelings of anxiety. This community service focuses on creating educational and inspiring websites, books, and videos to prevent and reduce transmission and anxiety related to COVID-19. The team took the theme "Writing for Healing" (WFH) to create websites and books. On the website, there are menus for Home, About, Story, and Videos. The video produced contains education about COVID-19. From this activity, there were 65 articles collected up to June 14, 2020. The authors came from various cities and regions, including Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Cirebon, Bengkulu, Bogor, South Kalimantan, North Jakarta, Jember, Purbalingga, Lumajang, Tangerang, Bali, Sampang, Batam, Makassar, South Jakarta, etc. These writings were published on the website wfh.sv.ugm.ac.id, and 33 of the best writings were made into a book published by BPP UGM. As for the video, the team has made two videos entitled 'Apa Itu Kenormalan Baru' and 'Stay Happy, Berkawan dengan Pandemi'. The impact given from this program can be seen from the number of writers, readers, website visitors, and video viewers that have been broadcasted on the website and YouTube.

This study aims at describing work ethics profile of Vocational College Students in Indonesia. Work ethics is an important indicator of human resources quality that must be owned by students of Vocational College as working-age population. There are four main dimensions in work ethics, namely commitment, integrity, professional attitudes, and hard work.  It is a descriptive research on self-evaluation survey. It uses Likert scale with 5 response options, ranging from 1 (never) to  5 (always). The respondents were determined using cluster sampling and convenience sampling. They are from four vocational educational institutions based on the three regions in Indonesia; College A (representing Western Indonesia colleges), College B and C (from Middle Indonesia), and also College D (in Eastern Indonesia).  This geographical perspective is used to get profile of Vocational College students’ work ethics regionally and nationally. The study concludes that there is no major difference among the self-evaluation results of work ethics in Western Indonesia, Middle Indonesia, and Eastern Indonesia (the mean scores of the four dimensions in four colleges which ranges from 3.89  to 4.54). The study concludes that integrity is in the highest rank among other dimensions. The one that takes place in the second position is commitment, except the one in College C. It is consecutively followed by being professional (except College C since its being professional is in the second place). The last is hard work. This profile signals positive support towards the demographic dividend for the development of the country.

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There has been an issue toward to what extent a formal education specifically embeds soft skills and work ethics, the aspects that employees must possess, and what efforts have been given to help develop them. This paper aims at developing a measurement instrument to assess, to help improve the employees’ level of soft skills and work ethics in industries and at the same time to give an insight about what universities should prepare to help their students acquire a sufficient acquisition of soft skills and work ethics. This research is a Research and Development (R&D), aimed at developing a measurement instrument on skills and work ethics. Partial Least Square (PLS) was employed to confirm the validity and reliability of the instrument. Some observations in industries were done, and semi-structured qualitative interviews and Focused Group Discussion (FGD) were conducted with stakeholders, HR managers, and psychologists. The results show that 47 out of 56 items are valid to measure intrapersonal, interpersonal skills, and communication skills. While for the work ethics, 44 statements were valid to measure commitment, integrity, professional attitude, and hard work. For the reliability, a composite value of reliability >0.70 is used, and the results show that the instrument is reliable.

The purpose of the research is to explain about the profile of food and beverage department in Amaris Hotel Diponegoro Jogja. In addition, the services provided by F & B department will also be discussed along with the challenges faced by the staff in F & B department. The methods used in this research consist of field study and library study. The field study was done in the form of direct observation and some interviews. Besides, the library study was also conducted to gaininformation from books, ebook, internet sources, and the handout obtained from Amaris Hotel Diponegoro Jogja including information on its human resources and the food and beverage department databases.Based on the finding obtained from the research, Amaris Hotel Diponegoro Jogja offers the basic standard facilities to the guests, namely bed and breakfast. The breakfast service was handled by the food and beverage department. In addition to the breakfast service, the food and beverage department also serves welcome drink service, meeting and banquet service, table service, and room service. The research also obtains several challenges faced by the staff in the food and beverage department, such as the time management, the communication among the kitchen staffs and the guests. To solve the challenges respectively, some ways were applied by the F & B staff, such as sharing jobs, holding intensive briefings, and also paying attention to the guests' requests and giving service to the guests according to their requests.