Zoharah Omar, Stevent Eric Krauss, Rahim M.

Sail and Ismi Arif Ismail Exploring Career Success of Late Bloomers from the TVET Background. Education + Training, 53(27), 2011, 603-624.

Introduction Late bloomers in this article are those who are weaker in formal academic disciplines and thus not perform as well in mainstream education system. Looking into people that successful career in work environment where their background are from the TVET background but they are late bloomer.

Problem Statement This article is about exploring the career success of the late bloomers from the TVET background. Where the article title is already state what the authors want to do. The significant of this article is two where first is the role of TVET in the context of Malaysian national development where the purpose of TVET in Malaysia are to produce skilled worker or k worker and alternative pathway by TVET serve for the school leaver and underachiever to realize and establish their true potential in stable and significant career pathway. Second significant are to TVET, late bloomers and social inclusion where offering TVET education as an alternative academic for late bloomers in social inclusion by giving them real means to achieve higher incomes. Authors give clear statement about their objective of research, hypothesis that been use in this research and their definition. There are three objective of this research which are: (1) to determine the level career success of Malaysian TVET graduates who have entered the workforced, (2) to determined the relationship between education level and job status on career success, and (3) to understand career path success factors of late bloomers.

Literature Review The source these authors take from the previous research or from other book are suitable for this article where its literature were not to wide or narrow just suitable with this research. The

literature were use was quite new where almost in the circle of 10 years before. Example in 2009 from the ministry of education. Minghat and Yasin, 2009, Heslin, 2005, and others.

Design and Procedure This research used the methodology of mixed method where there used quantitative and the quantitative. This research was design in line with the concurrent triangulation mixed method strategy by Cresswell, 2003 where the qualitative portion of the study was conducted in conjunction with quantitative data collection so in attempt to confirm cross validate or corroborate finding within single study. For quantitative approach where the tool of this research are data survey where 86 TVET late bloomers respondent were choose from the area of Kuala Lumpur and Pahang where the respondent meet the research criteria such as they do not qualified an university degree program after SPM, were considered high performers by their organization, were promoted in their organization and higher job in the organizations. For the qualitative approach, where they do the in-depth interview for 5 participant due to their strict criteria. Where they do the semi-structure interview. The variables of this data, first is objective career where divide to salary and promotion and the second variable is subjective career success where it divide to four dimension self and other referent measure of career success, career satisfaction, internal marketability and external marketability.

Data Analysis and Result For the qualitative data were analyze by the SPSS version 18, where to analyze the demographis and job profile of respondents by using the tables., ANOVA were use to determine the significant whether the respondents salaries had significantly increased since they began working after completing their education. And Spearmans rank-order used to see the relationship between the education level and job status with subjective career with subjective career success. the result of this analysis were approve by the hypothesis earlier. Where we can see positive hypothesis between the variable. Where factor of career success have two factor that is personal factors and organizational factors.

This finding use just for starting point for further study, due to its limitation sampling for this research.

Discussion and Implication The research finding we can implied that late bloomers although they do not excel in academic in school but in TVET they can improve their self in higher level of education and get successful career. So it show that in the long run this finding could be considerable impact to student, teacher and parent about TVET due to misconception of the education in it.

Conclusion This research is good motivation for the school student and other people who are late bloomer to achieve their career with TVET that is practical and hand on experience. Where if they not to academically achiever in academic university they can go to vocational university.