Assignment 3: Alternative Mindset and Concept of Job Creation

            When we were born in this world, our parents have already an obligation to make their children’s life better. They have the responsibility to mold their children to become a good example to everybody. That their children can make them proud and that they can let everybody that they have a talented son/daughter that exist in this world. To make that came true, one of their responsibilities is to make their children literate that’s why they send their children to school to give them education. Because we all know that education is the key to achieve our own goals that we can tell ourselves that we meet success.

            As Albert Einstein says, “Education is a process of wasting half of our life to learn how to waste the remaining half of our life.” With this quote we can relate it to our own lives, because when we were in the right age, maybe when we reach the age of 3, our parents are sending us to school and study the basics of life. We study in pre-schools then later we go to elementary and graduate to high school. But many of the youth in this country cannot make it to study in college because of financial crisis, so few of the high school graduates can make it to study in college and the other students are looking for a job that they think that is very suitable for him so that they can support to their family needs. So, the students that have studied in college have many options that they can use as an advantage to find a job after they graduate in the college. And they can choose if what kind of job they may have that they think is very suitable for him. And with the advantages that they think they may have, they use it so that they can make their own goals in their life.

            Goals can be achieve by everyone, but if a person has a characteristic of being a tardy person maybe it can be impossible to achieve it. As one of the citizen in this country, we have the freedom to do whatever we want to do that is not against the law. With this example we relate it to our goals that we have the freedom to set our own goals whether it is possible or not as long we think that we can achieve that certain goal in the right time. We can think whatever we want because of the freedom of expression that the constitution gave upon us. You can think that you can manage a certain group of companies if you think that you have a characteristic of being a good leader in the community. You can also think that you can become a good entrepreneur if you think that you have the potential of being a very good decision – maker and can lead to your own success in life. With these examples given, you may have a very good mindset that everybody wants.

            Last July 16, 2012 we have discussed the alternative mindsets that everyone may have if they know how they decide and plan of how they life may become. Our professor discussed that there are two types of mindsets: the common mindset and the alternative mindset. Let’s discuss first the common mindset, in this mindset we only limit ourselves into the common thinking that everybody can reason out about the feelings that they may have. This mindset only covers up the very common objectives that students usually think, like, “Going to school, have good grades, and find a very good job that suits to them.” And this is also the common mindset that our parents think and the reason why they sent us to schools. With these kind of mindset, the workforce that we can obtain will degrade because the newly graduates will find a better jobs in the places that offers a very big salaries. That’s why our best of the best graduates are not working here in Davao City because they are being recruited in the cities that offer a high pays for the jobs they work. We are only made the producer of the best graduates but we did not have the graduates that can work to this city and works for the improvement of the city that they work for. In this kind of mindset, the schools that the students graduate think that this is very beneficial for the school because it can lead to the dignity of the school. It can make the school become a very popular school that everybody think that the school can make a student to become the best of the best. But this mindset can make the city worse, because of the fact that the best graduates migrate to different cities to find a high – paying job and the city will be left by many average graduates that are unfortunate because of the fact that many of them cannot make the qualifications of the certain company that the city have.

            But there is a solution in this kind of mindset that we called the alternative mindset, which is every student thinks that the problems that they face may have a better solution, like, “Going to school, get good grades, and make your own company.” And this mindset is what we call the mindsets of the entrepreneurs that deal with technology or what we called technopreneurs. This mindset will enhance your skills, core values, creativity and even your passion to become a very successful businessman in the near future. This kind of mindset is the product of combining the creativity, innovation, and the visions that technopreneurs may have. With your own skills you can create the alternative mindset and make your own company so that you can help many students that cannot have better jobs. And if you have the confidence of managing a very good company you should have to become a good technopreneur.

Job creation on technopreneurship call attention to acquire manpower in order to work out possible innovation in technologies. The function of technopreneurship in the society and economy is vital because through technology, there will be possible jobs created and employment giving a chance to those who are jobless in the society may obtain for it. These jobs created in the field of technology will not only literally give job but also improve and discovers skills and talents of each individual related for technology. With this it will also be a bridge and channel to have an exchange of thoughts and strategies to improve not only our own lives but put in greatly to society and economic permanence of the city also to the country.

            Technopreneurship is covered by the SEED program or the Self – mastery, Environment Mastery, Enterprise Mastery, and Development of Business Plan. With this kind of program the student can enhance their own skills that can lead to a better entrepreneur. So let’s discuss the meaning of the SEED program one by one. First, is the Self – mastery, you should have the knowledge of knowing your own self so that you can estimate the advantage and the disadvantages that you may have and with that kind of situation you can manage to make a solution to avoid the fade away the success that you obtain. You should know the psychological facts that you have, like taking intellectual test (IQ), emotional test (EQ), and adversity test (AQ), so that you can learn your own limits. Taking intellectual test can make you aware of the capacity of your own thinking of the ideas that you may share in your company. Taking emotional test can measure your capacity to handle different situations that would happen in the ways of making your own success, and so on.

            Then Environment Mastery, this will covers the person for looking good opportunities around the environment that you belong. This will help you master how to handle a problem in a crucial situation that your idea is being needed to solve the problem as soon as possible. Serendipity walks often helps the person think many ideas while he was walking alone and suddenly can have a good idea that could help the company. This kind of mastery can make a person look for a better solution that the environment needs, innovations usually become the source of strength that a technopreneur may need to develop this skill so that when the problem comes by you can face it without fear.

            Then Enterprise Mastery, this will help develop the person’s skill how to handle the different problems that your company may face. This will help the person to engulf the weight of the problem may be. This will help the person to become competitive in the world of business. To make decisions about sales and marketing, promotion of the products that they are producing and give the company a very good profit. Innovations will also become the strength of the technopreneur that will develop this kind of aspect because it will test the person’s point of view in terms of how wide it can be. It can take the technopreneur to choose how to risk the different solution in their problems. With this mastery, we can measure how wide is the thinking capacity of the technopreneur to handle the functions of becoming a manager for the marketing, of making the financials of the company become efficient and making the plans for the company’s development.

            Lastly is Development for Business Plan, this is what the three masteries will combine. This will measure the technopreneur to make a better and suitable business plan for the company. This is to summarize the different skills that you have develop with the three masteries that had been discussed, the Self – mastery, the Enviroment Mastery, and the Enterprise Mastery.