Assessment of entrepreneurial skills intention toward self-employment among Nigerian graduates

Abstract

This study proposes a conceptual framework to examine graduates' intentions for self employment through their level of entrepreneurial skill underpinned on the idea of planned behavior. Previous results have indicated strong relationship between the desire for self employment and entrepreneurial skills. Thus, this study proposes a model in which factors of entrepreneurial skills: problem-solving, financial literacy, and innovation can be tested to evaluate their significant impact on the intention to be self-employed. The expectation of this model is to provide evidence and confirm past findings with a view to providing stakeholders to support graduate’s entrepreneurship intention as a basis for putting the intention into action to overcome the massive job disparities in Nigeria.