Do students really expect to get a job with a degree and no entrepreneurial skills?

Do students really expect to get a job with a degree and no entrepreneurial skills?
Far better to take a gap year before or after University and take the practical BTEC
Diploma in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
At IVCMalta.

Whether ENTREPRENER or EMPLOYEE
THINGS HAVE CHANGED

What makes people more “employable”?
What gives someone the edge to get ahead in life?
It is time to take a fresh start and to cast aside old ideas and preconceptions.

A JOB or A CAREER? These are not the same.

Within a CAREER Everyone needs to become an Entrepreneur
Add Value to the Employer.

Myths and False Assumptions for success
The more certificates, the better the chance of employment.
Bright people are destined for the best jobs.
People will find a job when they are ready for employment.
Bright individuals will never be unemployed (they may be jobless but can be retraining and improving themselves). Unemployment is what you make of it.
Increase chance of employment by just sending out CVs. (It is better to volunteer to work for experience, and be seen to be useful.)
Employers are responsible to give employees necessary experience.
People from school and from University are ready for employment.
Entrepreneurs have money to do it.
A job is a career (It is not).
To achieve a qualification is to “know it all”. Actually it is the beginning.

We must challenge the assumptions. The working environment has changed.
We need to keep moving forward, staying “alive” or we become unemployable.
Now there is the need to balance between economics and social responsibility.
The old ideas include security, continuity, loyalty, structured career path, predictable and stable future. Traditions were maintained, with fairness, justice, employer lead training and job security.
It was the employer’s job to train.
In the new (last 25 – 30 years) market based economies, work is unstructured, flexible and open to change and to renegotiation.

How to USE the qualification? Just having a qualification is not sufficient.
We must adapt to change and be prepared to step outside the traditional comfort zone.
The entrepreneur and employee needs to create profitability around his ideas, and work practice, each being like a one man business (intrapreneurship). That is how corporations can best operate. The employee who does what he is told is not creating added value from his own ideas and initiatives.

What can I GIVE to the company? – not what can the company give to me.

The individual now needs to value his own ability, give added value, create innovation and entrepreneurship, and manage his own career. There is a need to be flexible in working patterns, to aspire to be a high flyer, to self-motivate to keep learning, to learn to think for him-self. Be able to do anything, anytime, anywhere, to compete and to collaborate.

Work as if you are a self-employed professional, even in an organisation, expand your skills and define your own career. You have to do it, no-one else will. What are your core values and your attitude?

What is important for “employability”?
Starting from least important:
Job knowledge and certificates / qualifications.
Job skills
General Ability
Proactive attitude and Personality
Social (emotional) intelligence.
Life Long Learning perspective. Fall in love with continuous learning.
Adaptability to Change (GET OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE)
Creative and Enterprising Approach, come up with own ideas.
Knowledge of SELF, strengths, weaknesses, confusion and clarity.

Where are you?
Where can you go?
Everyone can benefit from coaching and support.
How to get better?

Find where you passion is.

“WHO AM I?”
Write two positive and two negative thoughts about yourself!

Finally:
Stay focussed and goal orientated, but keep sight of the bigger picture.
Develop self-initiative, observe, practice and grasp opportunities.
Qualifications are necessary but not sufficient.
Master your ability to adapt, to lead and to learn FAST!
Good luck, but you make your own luck. BE happy in what you do.
A large slice of life is work, so make it fun and rewarding, not just a way to pay for the other things in life.

Entrepreneur Training enables the individual with a technical qualification to apply that knowledge to add value to the company and excel as a profit centre within an organisation,

The entrepreneurial skills learned in this year will be of great value for lifetime.

Do students really expect to get a job with a degree and no entrepreneurial skills?
Far better to take a gap year before or after University and take the practical BTEC
Diploma in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
At IVCMalta.

http://www.ivcm.edu.mt/courseDIEE.html