AHP-TOPSIS on selection of new university students and the prediction of future employment

Universities are institutions that educate and generate labor candidates; as a result, the process of selecting new university students should pay attention to several matters and these matters should be considered. Many universities in the process base the selection on the academic skills and consequently problems will appear when an individual should evaluate all the job criteria as he or she enters employment. Through this paper the researchers would like to propose a model, AHP-TOPSIS, for the process of selecting new university students and for predicting their future employment. With the sample of 30 students from Diploma 3 Aeronautics STTA Yogyakarta, an evaluation model was designed using the indicators of academic skills, English proficiency skills, psycho test, soft skills (communication, problem solving and critical thinking, time management, cooperation, and adaptation skills), and attitudes. The load for these indicators were attained using the AHP and then these indicators would be calculated using the TOPSIS in order to find the alternative rank of the students' selection. The rank was determined by gathering the interest score from the calculation using the AHP so that the integrated evaluation results could be provided. The main objective of this paper was assisting the decision-makers in the process of selecting new university students who have both academic and personality skills that would be necessary to support their performance in the future employment.