Internships are one of the learning activities that support students in learning to plunge into the real world of work. By participating in the internship program, students get knowledge about what is happening in the world of work. The purpose of this literature review is to review the relevant journals to get an overview of which activities involve the apprentice training participants, and the role of the industry as a place of learning for students during the internship process. The method used is to search for literature and select relevant abstracts. The results of the identified research appear to group into two main groups: (a) the careers of Vocational High School students at the time of the empirical study internship have found work research that significantly enhances student career development (b) technical and vocational education training in TVET qualification work assignments.

Vocational education is currently the main topic of public discussion at the national education level. The main problem raised to the surface is the gap between graduates of vocational education and the absorption of national industry. The quality of graduate competencies that still do not meet the standards set by the industry while still having a low character, attitude and work ethic of the existing workforce. One of the components highlighted sharply regarding this issue is the capacity of human resources directly involved in the process of vocational education, namely professional vocational teachers. Moreover, entering the industrial era 4.0, the quality of professional vocational teacher competencies is very important to be a more in-depth and real study. Therefore, this study aims to describe comprehensively the efforts to improve the competence of professional vocational teachers in the digital era as an effort to meet the required competency standards. In addition, this study can systematically break down the tangled threads of vocational education that have occurred. The challenge of vocational education going forward is not only in the local, national and regional territorial dimensions, but also has a time dimension that continues to move forward with conditions constantly changing dynamically. For professional teachers, the vocational sector is very important to maintain and renew skills and knowledge in order to overcome the multi-dimensional dynamics of the world of work with a pattern of reform and increasing competition. Answering the challenges of this research will be conducted field observations to vocational high schools to find and explore data in the field. Observations were also made in various related industries to see empirically the vocational graduates in various industries and the labor market.

The development of the quality of education in Indonesia at the moment still has not improved significantly. Based on the data in the country it is known that the National Examination elementary schools to high schools not reflect the real value which, if interpreted in the ability to master students are still relatively low and no significant increase. Information from the business world also appears to complaints that graduates entering the workforce do not have good job readiness. Absorption related information data and the unemployment rate obtained from BPS West Java province shows that vocational graduates have the unemployment rate the highest percentage or the number of kills nearly two million. To the authors wanted to know on student achievement of competence relating to readiness for entering the workforce Global. The method developed problems related to this research is descriptive analytical methods sampling of some of the existing vocational school in West Java, which has a membership program Power Installation Engineering. The achievement of the competency of graduating from Vocational showed good. With both these categories is the initial capital as the provision of life skills to enter the workforce. These results may contribute to education, especially regarding the implementation of the system-oriented education in the field of vocational life skills.

The lack of absorption of vocational school graduates in the business world and industry is the government's concern as one of the indicators of not achieving the goal of vocational education to prepare professional and character workers. This paper aims to understand Gap attitude, skills and the implementation of work practices that have been run according to the perspective of students compared with employers. The study was conducted by conducting surveys and interviews with students of the Computer Engineering Network SMK in Siak Regency. who have carried out the internship. Research results from 32 respondents of students and employers showed that the attitude of students was good with a difference of 2-8%, basic computer and printer skills were in accordance with the industrial business world but for the basic network and medium students and students were still weak, with a difference of 4 -22%, from the aspect of the implementation of students and students as well as the business world and industry said that it was good. In general, attitude training, the implementation of internship is good but it needs to improve the basic network skills. This research is useful for evaluation for educators and the government to establish appropriate patterns in education according to regional culture.

This study aimed to achieving the implementation pattern of life skills education through a reorientation of learning and practice reforms implemented in vocational education. Research was conducted on vocational schools in West Java with a sample of five Schools. The method used in this study was quantitative research with descriptive problem-solving approach, associative causal and associative reciprocal. The objects of the research were vocational leaders, teachers of productive subjects, and students in grade 3 (XII) competency skills in Power Installation Engineering. The research findings show that learning in vocational education is in conformity with the goaloriented life skills. This is evidenced by the achievements in the implementation of the reorientation of the productive teacher. It shows a good significant support, and the reform of educational practices contribute to the achievement of the competence of graduates to achieve sufficient significance level. The achievement of the competency of students in grade 3 (XII) before graduating showed average figures is important in the provision of life skills to enter the workforce.