Abstract
Universities are developing more education initiatives to increase the entrepreneurial mindset of students to enhance the social sustainability and self-employment. Young people should work to increase their managerial and soft skills in order to face the process of innovation and change. This exploratory study identifies some features of the participants in the first edition of the contamination laboratory (CLab) of the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) whose mission is to develop creativity, soft skills and entrepreneurial mindset. In particular, it aims to investigate the relationship between career insight, social network and career self-management in a sample of University’s students during a training course organized according to the basic principles of Entrepreneurship Education. Data collection is carried out before and after the project. Results highlighted that there are significant differences before and after the course attendance in terms of personal and professional growth. These preliminary results present innovative aspects. From a theoretical point of view, the study laid the groundwork for future research in employability and entrepreneurial skills topics. About the practical implications, the study can provide some suggestions to promote and plan sustainable interventions in order to encourage young entrepreneurship and employability.
Highlights
In the last decades the labor market has changed significantly [1,2,3]
The purpose was to explore the crucial changes over time before and after the contamination lab training intervention, to analyze the entrepreneurial attitudes at the beginning of the contamination laboratory and to study if they show significant differences at the end of the contamination lab intervention
Social networks were found to be related significantly to career self-management as mediated by career insight. This can be discussed as follows: social networks evaluated by participants at time 1, that is in their initial condition, negatively influenced the career self-management Time 2 (T2)
Summary
In the last decades the labor market has changed significantly [1,2,3]. In particular, permanent employment is less frequent and the career has become borderless and unpredictable [4]. The EU 2020 Employment Strategy is significant in this regard: it recognizes entrepreneurship and self-employment as key factors for achieving smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and as a way to create new jobs [9]. The EU 2020 Employment Strategy recognizes entrepreneurship and self-employment as key factors for achieving sustainable, smart and inclusive growth and as a way to create new jobs [9]. In this framework, young people continue to be challenged by the unpredictability of the labor market since a mismatch between the skills possessed, acquired during the training, and those required by employers [8]. Researchers’ attention has been progressively moved by a so-called paradigm of career development towards a paradigm of career self-management [10]
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