EVENT PARTNERS SOFT SKILLS EDUCATION FOR PREPARING VOCATIONAL SECONDARY HIGH SCHOOL IN PRODUCING SKILLED GRADUATES

The condition of school dropouts will become a burden for familiesparents, if not soon get their own jobs. Creating employment by empowering skills that have become an alternative. In the village there are many Sumber Trucuk district craftsmen duck made from bamboo. Bamboo ducks are sold alongside a road Solo-Yogyakarta, Klaten Ceper precisely in the area during this is very exciting consumer interests, particularly foreign and local tourists who pass through the area. Children drop out of school later expected to be workers who participated duck ornament craftsmen that still exist. Potential duck bamboo products will be enhanced by creating a more attractive design painted with batik designs, which was shaped just duck bamboo duck and in the paint alone, will be upgraded into have been batik ducks from bamboo material. This certainly would be a more attractive commodity and higher economic value. With a selling price much higher. Through training programstraining for school dropouts partners on technology batik made from raw bamboo, they would be power that has better skills and are able to create and improve products that attract consumers during these tourists but notless attention development. This training is the idea of college teams that synergized with the program from the village headman Sumber Trucuk districts who want employment and want to increase revenue sluggish duck ornament craftsmen.

3. MEANING OF ITS EXISTENCE TO THE

ENVIRONMENT Children drop out of school which has not had sufficient skills to empower themselves and to create their own jobs, following training programs on systems and technology batik made from bamboo, and attended various other training materials, such as entrepreneurship training which aims to instill the mental attitude of independence and instill creativity, cooperation, effective communication, as well as training financeaccounting, then the training participants consisting of school children will become self- sufficient and capable of entrepreneurship into the duck bamboo crafters creative with the technology they have learned making a duck batik bamboo. With the partners in considerable amounts in the village district Sumber Trucuk, trainees are expected to expand its business and to develop the skills they have acquired to their environment, so that the business environment in the region will be developed. With the development of the existing business is expected later can cultivate the economy in rural areas such Sumber. PROBLEM PARTNER From the background mentioned above, the problem is formulated as follows: 1. Partners who are school dropouts in rural districts Sumber Trucuk most have relatively low levels of education, as children drop out of school. Partner with school dropouts are also not yet have the knowledge, technical skills, and business management are adequate. 2. Partner school dropouts do not have the financial and mental capital that is sufficient to empower themselves to be independent and have adequate business. Thus with the skills that are supported by the available in Sumber village can be exploited. Craftsmen duck decoration can be a dealer and give jobs to children dropping out of school. PURPOSE OF ACTIVITY The purpose of this activity are: a. Improving the skills of learners school children to plan and manage the business ornate batik duck designed so as to obtain a decent income to make ends meet. b. Cultivate insights from the entrepreneurial spirit among the participants that have a high work ethic and can produce excellent works that can compete in the global market. c. Improving the ability of learners in managing natural resources, social, cultural, and environmental and able to take advantage of various technologies and designs in the business of craft decoration duck. d. Having the ability to understand ourselves, others and the environment and the ability to work in teams in both the formal and informal sectors in a professional manner.

4. METHOD

Of the issues that have been proposed, alternative solutions offered for the partners of school dropouts in rural districts Sumber Trucuk to be able to act independently and can be started the business with skillsadequate skills are as follows: 1. Required trainingtraining system design technology batik on duck ornament made from raw bamboo. 2. Training mental attitude to entrepreneurship development. 3. Trainingfinancial management training for participants. 4. Training Business Plan preparation for the participants. 5. Training Business Management. 6. Success Story by presenting relevant business practitioners. It required a variety of designs that include the implementation of activities, evaluation, and implementation of activities is as follows: 196 1. Design Implementation Activities: a Preparation includes activities undertaken. • Develop materials and instruments for selection and recruitment for trainees. • Coordination with relevant stakeholders, such as village government agencies or private resources and institutionscrafters duck already exist. • Coordination with the teaching team that includes professors from the University Eleven March relevant and of related technical practitioners, namely Mrs. Muh. Sahid, leader of the company CV. Morinda Karanganyar. • Preparation of materialsmodulestraining materials. b Recruitment: Participants who attend as many as 20 people who came from the childyouth dropping out of school in the Sumber village with efforts to open opportunities and overcome the constraints faced. Entrepreneurship Training for participants to give an opportunity for Children Dropout in competing or ready to work. Community Services has also recruited several partners from among the government agencies and institutions to institute private property as a form of cooperation in reducing unemployment. c The provision of training: training provided, in the form, in-house training or out-house training. a. Entrepreneurship training: provided by the University Lecturers Eleven March in the form of in-house training or out- house training. b. Technical training, the manufacture of products made from bamboo ducks with batik design, which is given by technical practitioners from related businesses, Ms. Muh. Sahid, leader of the company CV. Morinda Karanganyar. c. Financial management training in the form of practical training, preparation of business plans, management of the business is done in in-house training, by Lecturer Faculty of Economics, University of Eleven March with the help of students of the Faculty of Economics UNS. d. Success Story speaker practitioners in the field of business-related. e. Production technical assistance, business management, financial management, and to the formation of business networks for marketing products in the future. 2. Evaluation activities: after attending training activities and training of a whole series of materials, participants will be evaluated: a At the end of the training program, participants individually required to make product training results in the form of batik duck made from bamboo. b At the end of the course participants must demonstrate the practice of preparing the financial statements, management of the business. c At the end of the training program participants are asked to submit business plan that will be made in writing or delivered orally. d Presenting entrepreneurs associated with the scope of business partners locally, regionally, as well as export-oriented production to see the results of the participants in order to form business networks that will be done. 3. Implementation activities are: • Lecturers related materials from the Faculty of Economics and the Sebelas Maret University. • Technical practitioners from related businesses, Ms. Muh. Sahid, leader of the company CV. Morinda Karanganyar. • Practitioners of related industries. • Agency or village government Sumber as a device that has the competence in HR- related training participants. • Craftsmen SMEs made from bamboo ducks that still exist and have the prospect of business development. TARGET 1. Objective criteria Educate Participants a. Have an interest to learndo business on Batik Design. b. Productive age population 18-35 years women and men, who come from disadvantaged familiespoor. c. Minimal educated SMPpackage B or the equivalent, high school dropouts or high school graduates do not continue. d. Location is in the Trucuk village Klaten district. 2. How to Educate Participants Recruitment a. Socialization Dissemination to citizens in Countryside Sumber Trucuk Klaten district with materials dissemination of Community Service from the Sebelas Maret University Surakarta. b. Ammounced to citizens in Countryside Sumber Trucuk Klaten District of Entrepreneurship Training will be held and opened registration for prospective participants. 197