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This study aims to analyze the influence of hard skills, soft skills, and self-efficacy on job readiness among senior students at private universities in Semarang. The study population consists of senior students at private universities in Semarang who have completed an internship or training program and are currently working on their final projects. The sampling technique used a purposive sampling approach with a sample size of 130 respondents. Data were collected by distributing a questionnaire via Google Forms using a five-point Likert scale and analyzed using IBM SPSS Version 26, including data instrument testing, classical assumption testing, model goodness-of-fit testing, and multiple linear regression analysis.
The results of this study indicate that hard skills, soft skills, and self-efficacy have a positive and significant effect on work readiness. These results indicate that the better students’ mastery of hard skills, the higher their soft skills, and the stronger their self-efficacy, the higher their level of readiness to enter the workforce. Thus, improvements in technical competencies, non-technical abilities, and students’ confidence in their own abilities are factors that support the work readiness of senior students.