# Soft Skill Vocational

> Getting Ready for Life After SMK. Back at SMKN 26 Jakarta as guest speaker: the soft skills that carried me from LKS competitions to leading an Android team — and why to start building them now.

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Last updated: 2026-09-29

- **Type:** Guest Lecture
- **Event:** SEISVOCA · MPK SMKN 26 Jakarta
- **Date:** 2023-07-13
- **Location:** SMKN 26 Jakarta
- **Audience:** Vocational high-school students
- **Language:** Bahasa Indonesia
- **Topics:** Soft Skills, Career, Vocational Education
- **Slides:** [view the deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mm6oKK-4s1oOEZuQrwIAh21-UVYcXOU_TXAvCrQI5OE/edit?usp=sharing)

Guest-star session at SEISVOCA (Seminar Soft Skill Vocational), organised by MPK SMKN 26 Jakarta, speaking to students at my own alma mater (SIJA 26 ’46).

Work or university after SMK — why prepare now? The talk traces the path from LKS ITSS competitions (1st DKI Jakarta, 2nd National 2019) to Android Team Lead at Happy5, and the soft skills behind it: collaboration and effective communication, adaptive learning, time management — and parents’ prayer.

It closes on chasing opportunity and a bright future, but at your own pace: "pelan-pelan, Pak Sopir".