期刊名称:Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review
电子版ISSN:2223-5833
出版年度:2013
卷号:2
期号:10
出版社:Sohar University, Oman and American University of Kuwait
摘要:The study was a survey research designed to obtaindata on the vocationalmindset and readiness of undergraduate students of the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria for vocational and entrepreneurship jobs after graduation. A sample of 177 students of formthe entire 400level offering various vocational courses are purposively selected for the study and they responded to a questionnaire that was developed for the study. Data were analysed using frequency distribution and percentages. The findings from the study revealed that entrepreneurial mindset scores of sampled of the undergraduate students followed the pattern of a normal curve curve with a mean of 24.01 and standard deviation of 7.37. The result of the study also revealed that only 26 (15.3%) of the respondents are interested in self-employment while those intending to be in the private sector were 46 (26.0%) and the remaining 59% would rather want one form of public sector paid appointment or the other. The study recommended thatvocational skills andentrepreneurship courses should be embedded with more practice of the skills expected of learners.
关键词:Vacational Education; Mindset; Career plans; Undergraduate