Being an entrepreneur will help me create jobs for people and be able to get a good enough salary, if my business is able to survive past the developing stage. It will be difficult to find an informal job, like becoming a house cleaner, as many families already have domestic workers and some are very reluctant to allow people they don’t trust into their homes. 5) I do think that if you have matric it gives you a better chance at getting a job in South Africa because some of the jobs require you to do work that you learn in your last two years of your school career. It also means that you are more informed about certain things because you learnt about
Education and application of that knowledge is crucial to building a successful business. To achieve the goals or dreams one must weigh the benefits of studying and preparing to become an entrepreneur. The objective at hand is to educate, observe, and analyze all aspects of business. One must become informed to improve the chances of having wealth and happiness in the pursuit of owning or managing a business or corporation. Studying a business’s many types and functions offer career goals and typically provide professional development and skills to succeed in any profession (Bethel University, 2011).
What is entrepreneurship? While several may define the actual word as “the willingness to take risks and develop, organize and manage a business venture in a competitive global marketplace that is constantly evolving.”, an entrepreneur is often defined as someone that assumes the risk of starting their own business. However, there’s more to being an entrepreneur, or having entrepreneurial qualities, than just simply starting a business. Entrepreneurial actions and behaviors can occur is several different ways for already established and lucrative companies and organizations.
Without the teaching of entrepreneurship principles and ideals and more teaching of being a “good employee” students will lose the opportunity to develop a higher level of divergent thinking. According to a study conducted by Saied Karimi , “Pre- vs. post-test comparisons showed the students who followed the course to subsequently have a higher level of divergent thinking, also with respect to the students who did not enrol in the course.” The loss of divergent thinking would lead to less students pursuing a career in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs “fuel American innovation, make our industries more globally competitive and create new jobs across our economy” (Mills). When K-12 systems across the country realize this, the American
When people are resourceful, they will always entertain new ideas, approaches and possibilities. Entrepreneurship education and experience is an excellent way to drive this home and make young people more resourceful, as are hackathons, leadership activities and organizations. Cultivating resourcefulness as a skill prepares young people for jobs that may not yet exist; in fact, the more resourceful they are, the more likely the next generation will be to create their own jobs - and companies that will create jobs for others. Ambition Ambition changes the opportunity outlooks for a young person dramatically.
The report Toward Effective Education of Innovative Entrepreneurs in Small Business: Initial Results from a Survey of College by Summit Consulting, LLC, and based on their statistics, the percentages of business student who took entrepreneur course will found a company is significantly higher than the ones who did not (11). Furthermore, Statistics shows that MBA Alumni are twenty-two percent higher than undergraduate students who found a company (9). Thus, the research method between MBA alumni between undergraduate students is based on their experiences, education curriculum, and subsequent careers. As a result, entrepreneurs with higher educations have a great chance to found a company and have a greater chance to succeed. With that being said, entrepreneurs who received higher education in the modern society has a higher chance to found a company in their
Such students hence later on get creative and they are in charge of innovations which make the world a better living
I. What have been my pathways to leadership? Common phrases of society states that ‘you are born to be a leader’ or ‘you are a natural leader’. Although through the readings and the theory we learnt, we can ask ourselves if leadership is rather something that we learn, that we need to be trained for, it is the question of nature or nurture. With this assignment we will try to evaluate our leadership, to assess myself, I will try to find what in my characteristics can be relevant for leadership. I will start from the beginning as you start the foundation of a house from the ground, I will try to develop following a timeline of my life how my personal and professional experience, ideas and people I have met have influenced my leadership.
A college education is important to me because it helps secure my future. An education help me secure a well paying job to support a husband, children, family members, and also the community. With a college education, it will help build background knowledge and skills for the future in and out of work. The knowledge acquired in college will help make decision making easier, help with tasks at home, and solve problems. The skills I learn in college will give me more confidence in my future job- which I plan on going into nursing.
The Importance of College Education There are people living on the streets, and there are people living in mansions. There is a very obvious reason why some are so successful, but a large chunk of people have yet to figure out why. College is the road map for a life full of great mysteries and enormous success. Obviously education is the correct path to take,it is the root in all professions. Proceeding with the learning experience is a magnificent way to put students high on the job list,yet many people often question the cost when it comes to universities all over the world.
In today’s expensive world, it is a common trend that the cost of university education increases as the cost of living increases. Most countries offer free education through high school, yet many question wether university education should be free as well. It is essential to ambitious students to have a university level degree, but not free of cost. These people believe that “if you are good at something, never give it for free”, since anything available for free of cost is hardly valued. Thus, if university education becomes available for free, then students may not find it to be as valuable.
Aristotle once said “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”. Personally, music has been a part of my life for the majority of my existence. I have participated in the music programs at my local schools throughout the entirety of my education thus far and I plan to expand my knowledge in the following years at university. Much like many other students, music has become such a vital part of my life; I plan on continuing my musical passion for the years to come. Throughout my years in music, I have also experienced threats from the school district, the state, and even the nation to take away the funding for music programs in public schools.
Over the last forty years in Trinidad and Tobago, between 1974 and 2014, technical and vocational education has been evolving rapidly as it holds an essential position in changing the economic status of the people and facilitates the social needs of the country. Technical and vocational education is the practical training that is provided to individuals so that they can gain knowledge, skills and the proper attitude necessary for admission into the world of work. It was mainly implemented for, but is not limited to, the youths of the Trinidad and Tobago as it was structured to curb the problem of unemployment and discipline. Technical and vocational training programmes were mainly in the field of agriculture, masonry, welding, plumbing and carpentry as well as in the energy industry. The expansion of technical and vocational education programmes have changed the economic and social needs of the country by providing training, jobs and basic necessities and improved the economic and sustainable development of the nation as a whole.
Entrepreneurship in the Philippines is currently booming and one of the best things a person can do today is start taking action in putting up its own business or acquiring a franchise (Louren, 2017). Entrepreneurship is a state of mind. It is not identified or measured with the type of business a person is in the success of that business but rather it is the total way of life for entrepreneurs. Being an entrepreneur requires distinct personality traits such as having a risk-taking personality, need for achievement, internal focus of control, tolerance for ambiguity and having a type A behavior or striving to achieve more in less time and general competitiveness (Gilles and Mondejar, 2008). Entrepreneurship has been described as the “capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit” (www.businessdictionary.com).
7.0 Entrepreneurial Industry as a mean of economic growth model In their research, Arcs and Armstrong (2003) have established the strong positive correlation between entrepreneurship and employment growth. It also considered as a vehicle to incorporate human capital, enhancing research and development and bring along innovation in an economy (Glaser, 2006). As per Schumpeter’s concept of entrepreneurship, the advancement of the entrepreneurship industry is a valid indicator of innovation.