Research found that self-efficacy has an important role in the development of students’ career cognitive skills. Besides, there still needs further research in self-efficacy, particularly in career readiness. The authors conduct this continuing study is to determine the effect of understanding perceived self-efficacy on student’s awareness in career readiness (mastery experience, vicarious experience, social persuasion, and emotional arousal). Data collected using a self-report of the Self-Efficacy Scale in Career Readiness (SESCR), semi-structured interview, and observation of student’s behavior between both participants with the high and low level of self-efficacy. In the current study, 100 students involved based on their convenience. Results showed that 66% of participants have a high mastery experience, 69% with high vicarious experience, 76% have a high percentage in social persuasion, and 70% have a high level of emotional arousal to understanding their career readiness. The results also showed perceived self-efficacy predicts student’s awareness of career readiness based on gender.

Counseling has been such a trend in 21 century, as a science that studied a human in psychology perspective. However, it appear with progressive touch, has affect in human mindset in every life that undertake. In 21 century development, many opinion and argumentation about counseling has an uniqueness in philosophy multicultural perspective that counseling has linkage with cultural and philosophy values in human it self, that make a new paradigm has been raise to the surface, such indigineous counseling and multicultural counseling perspective. Regardless with that paradigm, we can’t deny that basically all of science was from a human philosophy about their life with purpose to make understand and handle their life with solving a problems. But is there all of cultural and philosophy can be a such formulation to solve the problem? If cultural and philosophy values transform to such formulation as a science, is there a procedure and criteria to admitt that? Also if counseling only such philosophy or science, practical intervention, how to implemented in real life that has a multicultural and multivalues in philosophy of life? In this article, will describe such a synthesize about counseling as a  science or practical science in education in multicultural philosophy paradigm and perception counselor about counseling profession.

The performance of school leader elements needed to get special attention, because it had an effect on the quality of learning service in empowering the optimal teacher. Incentive was one of the factors that affected the quality of the performance of school leader elements, therefore the government of Padang City gave special attention through the implementation of Bosda policy. The purpose of this study was to describe the impact of Bosda policy implementation on the performance of school leader elements of Public SMP in Padang City. This research focused on descriptive and analytical. The sample was 62 respondents that were determined randomly. The data were analyzed using SPSS software. The results showed that the performance of school leader elements was in good category (76,46%), and the implementation of Bosda policy was in quite good (76,17%). Bosda had a significant impact on the performance of school leader elements (7,1%) in improving the quality of learning service. The performance of school leader elements can be enhanced through the implementation of Bosda policy. Therefore, Bosda needed to be implemented continuously by always trying to improve its governance especially in the aspect of the implementation of follow up in the evaluation of the improvement of school leader elements performance to realize the optimal learning service through the teacher empowering as a result of the implementation of Bosda policy.

This discussion based on the reality of adolescents behavior which generally contradicts the prevailing values in the norms and practices of the community in Pontianak region, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Most adolescents did not consider their self-identity and insufficient psychological performance. Pontianak adolescents, indicating their existence and independent from their obligations. In the humanistic existential view emphasizes self-awareness, meaning and purpose of life and responsible freedom. We tried to internalizes the indigenous values of Saprahan including the values of openness (Seanak Sekemanakan), the value of politeness, care (Senaseb Sepenanggungan), the value of togetherness (Seadat Sepusaka, Sepucuk Setali Darah) as a counseling approach based on the indigenous culture of the Pontianak-Malay community to increase awareness of self-identity of adolescents. Cultural values in counseling approach contains self-awareness of students to understand and find the meaning of life according to the moral messages in the indigenous Saprahan values, because these values are a representation of the moral and cultured youth identity.