ANDROID-BASED TALENT & INTEREST ALLOCATION APPLICATION

Abstract

Someone needs soft skills to achieve success in society. Every organization implements a strategic planning model according to its characteristics. Higher education is an organization that forms generations and has a role in preparing future leaders of the nation. Thus, education has a strategic role in building student character. The implementation of character education for students can be through three activity paths: curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular. The extracurricular path aims to develop activities for students' talents, interests, and hobbies, including reasoning, sports, arts, and special interests. Therefore, an application must identify and allocate student characteristics based on their intelligence-type tendencies. So that higher education can create targeted policies.

People use smartphones in every daily activity. So that applications that make it easier for users and provide benefits will be used and needed by the community. In this study, the application to detect student intelligence types is named Android-Based Talent & Interest Allocation (TIA). The research use 200 new students of Universitas Terbuka Padang. Based on data processing, 95% of respondents said the test results followed their daily character. Moreover, 88% stated that they applied the suggestions on the Mobile TIA application to select student activities and lectures. The suggestion for further research is to look at the learning outcomes and characters formed after one semester of implementing activities based on recommendations from the Mobile TIA application.