PECs Flashcards
Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies
One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise
Entrepreneur
Having the necessary skills/abilities; able to do something well or well enough to meet a standard
Competent
a concept of collective set of skills and/or abilities, sufficient enough or more than sufficient to organize, manage, and assume risk of a business or enterprise profitably
Entrepreneural Competency
Harvard university psychologist who has done extensive research work on entrepreneurship since the late 1950’s
Proffesor Donald McClellend
Three clusters of EMPRETEC
Achievement, Planning, Power
refers to the set of competencies that support the motive for being successful in the entrepreneurial undertaking
Achievement
refers to the set that allows the entrepreneur to organize and prepare procedures to ensure that the business venture will keep going forward
Planning
refers to the most personal and mostly defined the true character of a successful entrepreneur
Power
Competencies in Achievement
5
Opportunity Seeking, Persistence, Commitment to Work Contract, Risk-Taking, Demand for Efficiency and Quality
Competencies in Planning
3
Goal Setting, Information Seeking, Systematic Planning and Monitoring
Competencies in Power
2
Persuasion and Networking, Self-Confidence
The ability to be innovative in order to capitalize on such an opportunity
Opportunity Seeking
refers to the characteristic of an entrepreneur of being steadfast in his decision and cannot be easily dissuaded when faced with difficulties
Persistence
ability to perform assigned tasks whatever it takes to make sure that he delivers the product/service on the agreed period with his clients
Commitment to Work Contract
Doesn’t take these blindly, but rather on a more smart and calculated basis
Risk-Taking
Characteristic of an entrepreneur who always demand better
Demand for Efficiency and Quality
The first step an entrepreneur must do
Goal Setting
A successful entrepreneur has an open mind and always strives to seek information
Information Seeking
Refers to the entrepreneur’s ability to create a well-organized and efficient plan that is logically sound, yet simple and practical
Systematic Planning and Monitoring
The ability to make people believe in you
Persuasion and Networking
Refers to a strong belief upon one’s self that they can complete a task no matter how difficult it might become
Self-Confidence
Writes programs that are used to control computer systems and its peripherals. They usually use low-level instructions in programming that directly communicates and controls that computer itself and its peripherals. Low-level instruction codes are usually difficult to understand especially for people who are not really familiar with computer programming
System Programmer
Creates program targeted for end users. Programs created by these programmers are rather more specific in nature and would mostly be in aid of data manipulation and business processes. High-level language is used to create these programs.
Application Programmer
Creates programs focused on entertainment, specifically computer games. They create programs that are comparatively more complex than application programs in terms of algorithm and computing. They may use a combination of high and low-level languages or a more specific language that is written especially to be able to manipulate and control both game elements and controller.
Game Programmer
Creates and develops website and other programs that is needed by some of its components to function. Among the four areas of specialization, this is perhaps the one that significantly gains more popularity due to high demand in the market as well as the availability tools that makes it easier to implement.
Web Programmer
In the Philippines, there are a number of companies who are already well established and constantly seeking skilled and talented people to work in the field of programming. Some are even offering internship to their prospected personnel to develop them before they join the company officially. Some company are foreign-owned while a lot of them are still 100% Filipino-owned, and are just as established as the foreign ones.
Established Software Development Companies
This industry has been stronger than before and as a result, attracted various outsourced tasks from call center agents to back office staffing, animation, and now even coding or programming. Although you may not exactly experience complete development projects through outsourced coding tasks, this is still a very good way for you to build your experience and develop more of your competencies.
Business Process Outsourcing
Another channel for employment or entrepreneurship that is also becoming more and more popular. A lot of client here and abroad are seeing a lot of value in “outsourcing” their programming jobs directly to individual programmers or developers through freelancing sites
Freelancing
