Abstract:

One of the Indonesian government missions is to increase numbers of young entrepreneurs to reduce unemployment rate. Therefore, entrepreneurial education is introduced in middle schools, particularly in vocational schools. On the other hand, regulators and practitioners in education field focus only on how to make the students be competent to be an employee, not an entrepreneur. This study is aimed to investigate what factors to predict students’ intention for becoming an entrepreneur. This study employed four predictor variables: personality traits, attitude, entrepreneurial education, and self-efficacy. Indicators to measure each variables were adapted from prior studies. A survey had been conducted involving 215 participants from four vocational schools in Jakarta. Data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling. This study proved that attitude and self-efficacy had a significant impact on entrepreneurial intention. Interestingly, personality traits and entrepreneurial education had not effect to entrepreneurial intention.