<![CDATA[The open unemployment rate of vocational high school (SMK) graduates reached 9.60 percent in February 2023, the highest among all education levels. This study examined the relationship between self-regulated learning and employability skills among students of the Mechanical Design and Drafting program at a public vocational high school in Bekasi City. The study surveyed 164 of 277 students, a sample size set with the Slovin formula at a 5 percent margin of error. Data were collected through Likert-scale questionnaires comprising 26 employability skills items (Cronbach's alpha = 0.788) and 20 self-regulated learning items (Cronbach's alpha = 0.785) and analysed with Pearson product-moment correlation after assumption testing. Seventy percent of the students showed employability skills in the moderate category, while 48 percent showed self-regulated learning in the low category. The two variables were positively and significantly correlated (r = 0.532, p < 0.05) at a moderate level, and self-regulated learning accounted for 28.3 percent of the variance in employability skills. The lowest mean item scores appeared in the motivational indicator of self-regulated learning and the learning indicator of employability skills. Schools can use these findings to train learning planning, self-monitoring, and study habits within technical drawing instruction.]]>
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