The document provides information for university students about developing entrepreneurial skills. It notes statistics about higher education and career outcomes. It encourages students to make their CVs stand out and gain experience. Students are advised to develop skills at university, have a learning strategy, and start being enterprising. Support for entrepreneurial students is available through university awards and societies. A video discusses traits of enterprising people like social skills, advantage seeking, teamwork and creativity. Students are invited to assess their own entrepreneurial tendencies and stay informed through the ESSA website and social media.

1. @ University

2. Allow me in 10 minutes to make an
INTRODUCTION

3. Some facts
• 2,493,415 students in Higher Education
• 60% of you will get a 2:1 or above
• Most of you will have a student loan
• Most of you will present the same or similar CV to
employers
• Most of you will have the same career path
• Only 7.6% of you will be unemployed
• 95% of businesses in the UK have less than 10 people
• 75% of you will be seriously consider self employed or
start a business within the next 10 years

4. What does it mean?
• Think now!
– How do I make my CV stand out?
– How do I get sector experience?
• Plan:
– Develop the skills while you are at university
– A strategy to achieve your learning outcomes
– What and when
• Start being enterprising
• Record your activities

5. Help is at hand
• There are awards, accreditation, and
recognition for enterprising students at your
university.
• Check out www.theessa.com for more details.
• ESSA is providing support for society, so join
one today!

6. 5 minutes video
WHAT DO ENTERPRISING PEOPLE
HAVE?

7. Focus
Social Advantage
Enterprising
Team Creativity
Ego
Discuss
HOW DOES THAT APPLY TO ME?

8. AM I ENTERPRISING?

9. How to fill it out
• You will have 24 questions
– Score yourself 1-5 on each
• 1 = low
• 5 = high
• Add up each section (FACETS)
• You will then have six numbers, one for each section
• You have 10 minutes

10. AM I ENTERPRISING?

11. Stay in touch with us at:
URL: www.theessa.com
Email: team@theessa.com
Twitter: @ESSAtweeting
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-ESSA/
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ESSAContest
This presentation has been developed by Dr. David Bozward and derived from:
Bill Bolton and John Thompson, Entrepreneurs: Talent, Temperament, Technique. 2nd Edition, Elsevier (2004)
Bill Bolton and John Thompson, The Entrepreneur in Focus: Achieve Your Potential. Thomson Learning (2003)