Scale Construction of Self-Assessment of Entrepeneurial Competencies

Entering the ASEAN economic community today, Indonesia needs to develop the number of entrepreneurs, primarily comes from student graduate of the vocational high school. The curriculum on vocational education in Indonesia consists of entrepreneur subjects that developed the students with technical competence (hard skills) and non-technical competencies (soft skills). In this study, the authors construct a measure of entrepreneurial competencies consists of soft skill competence and hard skill competence. Participants were asked to assess own abilities in various competencies, according to the statements provided. The participants were 258 graduated vocational students from Yogyakarta and Jakarta. Researchers made 137 initial statement and in the end, took 24 best statement. Results of the reliability and validity of the questionnaire were satisfactory. Future studies are needed to test the predictive power of the test tool to the success of students in entrepreneurship. Keywords: competencies, entrepreneurship, scale construction, selfassessment, vocational school

A Construction of Entrepreneurial Personality Tests: Testing Archetype Personality Inventory in Entrepreneurship

VUCA is about a hyper-competitive and unpredictable environment. It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Personal attributes are necessary to navigate the VUCA environment. Studies in entrepreneurship show that narratives help people to connect different experiences. Literature shows that a narrative journey can be described through archetypes and relate to entrepreneurial behavior. This study aims to construct and validate measurements of entrepreneurial personality by adapting Pearson & Marr's archetype inventory test within the entrepreneurial context. This study was conducted as an assessment of the measurement psychometric attributes consisting of 12 archetypes. Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) was carried out by Oblimin rotation resulting in 60 final items. This study involved 154 small and medium entrepreneurs in Jakarta and West Java