Budding entrepreneurs get a helping hand
May 26, 2012, Saturday
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MANY college students, faced with a tight labor market ahead, are thinking that it may be easier to create work than find work.
The Minhang District wants to help budding entrepreneurs learn the ropes of starting their own businesses. It has set up a pilot project of business courses for college students to help map out their own careers.
Nearly 100 students at East China Normal University have already participated in the course, which is co-sponsored by the Minhang Human Resource and Social Security Bureau.
"It's a helpful course," said a student who preferred to remain anonymous. "Though there is still quite a long time before graduation, I hope that I can get prepared as soon as possible, and this course can give me the opportunity."
The course includes 12 lectures given by successful entrepreneurs, college professionals and industry specialists from the district. Internships are available at the end of the course.
Students learn how to start up businesses, write business plans, look for financing, handle accounting and organize a management structure.
"Establishing a business relies on the motto: 'Survive first, develop next," said Peng Juanshu, a business development specialist with the Minhang bureau. "That's what I want to convey to the students in the course."
Interest in the course is intense. Initially, 300 students applied, according to Yu Libo, director of the Business Establishment Education Center of the university.
"Eventually we chose 97 students, who are mainly freshmen and sophomores," Yu said. "We also have students from other universities, such as Jiao Tong and Fudan, auditing our course."
It's one thing to learn what to do but quite another to do it. So the course provides students practical experience working in a company and also has some financing available to help support students who come up with feasible business plans.
The Minhang bureau also said it will assist students looking for venture capital to fund their start-up dreams.
Meanwhile, the bureau is also negotiating with nine "creative industry" zones in the district on providing "fast tracks" for bright students. That assistance may, for example, allow rental discounts for business premises.
The students are asked to keep a complete record of the development of their business ideas.
Yu said he was surprised to see so many of them with start-up plans in the services industry.
"We had expected that the students would want to venture into technology fields, or at least something that fits in with their majors," he said.
Yu said some of the proposals include opening a café bar, a restaurant, or a service agency for college students.
"I think this is because the students are concerning most how they can make a living after graduation," he said. "I believe that with the expansion of their vision and enrichment of their social experiences, they will change the idea and make their proposals more probing."
The Minhang District wants to help budding entrepreneurs learn the ropes of starting their own businesses. It has set up a pilot project of business courses for college students to help map out their own careers.
Nearly 100 students at East China Normal University have already participated in the course, which is co-sponsored by the Minhang Human Resource and Social Security Bureau.
"It's a helpful course," said a student who preferred to remain anonymous. "Though there is still quite a long time before graduation, I hope that I can get prepared as soon as possible, and this course can give me the opportunity."
The course includes 12 lectures given by successful entrepreneurs, college professionals and industry specialists from the district. Internships are available at the end of the course.
Students learn how to start up businesses, write business plans, look for financing, handle accounting and organize a management structure.
"Establishing a business relies on the motto: 'Survive first, develop next," said Peng Juanshu, a business development specialist with the Minhang bureau. "That's what I want to convey to the students in the course."
Interest in the course is intense. Initially, 300 students applied, according to Yu Libo, director of the Business Establishment Education Center of the university.
"Eventually we chose 97 students, who are mainly freshmen and sophomores," Yu said. "We also have students from other universities, such as Jiao Tong and Fudan, auditing our course."
It's one thing to learn what to do but quite another to do it. So the course provides students practical experience working in a company and also has some financing available to help support students who come up with feasible business plans.
The Minhang bureau also said it will assist students looking for venture capital to fund their start-up dreams.
Meanwhile, the bureau is also negotiating with nine "creative industry" zones in the district on providing "fast tracks" for bright students. That assistance may, for example, allow rental discounts for business premises.
The students are asked to keep a complete record of the development of their business ideas.
Yu said he was surprised to see so many of them with start-up plans in the services industry.
"We had expected that the students would want to venture into technology fields, or at least something that fits in with their majors," he said.
Yu said some of the proposals include opening a café bar, a restaurant, or a service agency for college students.
"I think this is because the students are concerning most how they can make a living after graduation," he said. "I believe that with the expansion of their vision and enrichment of their social experiences, they will change the idea and make their proposals more probing."
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