Meslek Yüksekokulu Öğrencilerinin Kariyer ve Girişimcilik Yönelimleri(Career and Entrepreneurship Orientation of Vocational School Students)

Abstract

With the paradigm shift in the world; it is known that entrepreneurship contributes to employment, investment, balance of payments and development of countries. For this reason, it is observed that the subject of “entrepreneurship” is starting to take place in the curriculum of vocational schools, undergraduate, graduate and PhD programs in Turkey, as in other countries of the world. In this study, a questionnaire was applied to determine the career and especially entrepreneurial tendencies of students who take entrepreneurship courses at Istanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University Vocational School. The data obtained from 98 students were analyzed by using the quantitative and qualitative research methods together and some findings were obtained. According to findings, 39,80% of all students have a career tendency in private sector while the rate of those who prefer an entrepreneurship career is 26,53%. Moreover, 27% of the students who want to move towards entrepreneurship career are female and 73% are male. It was observed that female students prefer mostly private sector and male students choose entrepreneurship. In addition, there are differences between the departments of students in career orientation preferences.

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• entrepreneurship tendency
• vocational school
• education