WHAT IS THE BEST EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURS? : AN ANALYSIS OF DISPARITY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES OF STUDENTS BASED ON GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP

DOI

10.2991/aecon-17.2017.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Graduate Employability Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Educational Program, Psychological Profiles, Students

Abstract

Entrepreneur is needed to improve the nation's economy. Students as the next generation and also as productive workforce, will continuing their career as employee or self-employer after graduation. Employability is a key educational concept that has found its way into the Higher Education discourse in the last few years. It's emphasized at how skill-based university training should translate into a smooth transition to work by graduates. This paper presents psychological profile of students based on their graduate employability entrepreneurship. The result shown that there is basic education to improve student's capacity and willingness to have a career as entrepreneurship. The quantitative research has been done on 450 students at West Java, Indonesia using convenience sampling. There are differences at student's psychological profile based on gender, entrepreneurial experiences, social support, and their self-efficacy. Furthermore, a series of employability strategies are presented and analyzed in order to assess their effectiveness. As a conclusion, a number of different initiatives and proposals to improve graduate employability entrepreneurship among psychological resource, activities and entrepreneurship curricula design are presented.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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