Self-Concept in Determining Student Career of Islamic Guidance and Counseling Students

This research is motivated by the fact that the Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Curup is one of the tertiary institutions that provide academic and professional education, which is composed of the whole and unity of Islamic knowledge. IAIN Curup has many Academic and Professional education programs that match the interests, talents and potentials of the individual. From that level of education can determine a person's job or career. A person in general needs a job field to work and be successful in the job he is holding. In society at large, there are various types of work, but not all of the works that have been served are successful and happy as a life goal per their self-concept. At this time, work has a very big role in fulfilling the needs of human life, especially economic needs, free trade, and technological progress will increase competition or money that can be used to buy goods and services to meet the needs of daily life. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The place of this research is IAIN Curup, Rejang Lebong Regency. The research subjects were students of the seventh-semester BKI concentration. In this research, data collection techniques used observation, interviews and documentation. Then, the data analysis techniques used data collection, data presentation and concluding. From the research, it can be seen that the knowledge regarding self-concept of many research subjects The knowledge of Guidance and Counseling students regarding their overall self-concept is still looking for their identity and potential, the expectations of BK students concerning careers are not entirely interested in education according to the majors intake it but must be achieved, the assessment of BK students, if the desired expectations are not achieved, must keep trying by continuing to study hard and diligently