Faith O. Margate | Maya R. Sanchez
Discipline: business studies
This study aimed to assess the utilization of entrepreneurial skills and the socioeconomic impact of the Technical Education and Skills Development training program in the province of Camiguin, the is-land born of fire in Northern Mindanao. Among the graduates of the training programs, 117 agreed to participate and provide the neces-sary information to answer the inquiries of this undertaking. Quan-titative descriptive research design was employed with a survey questionnaire as the main data gathering tool, supplemented with a casual interview for clarification purposes. Research protocols were observed, and appropriate statistical tools were employed to pro-duce reliable results. Analysis revealed that the counts of females were a little higher than their male counterparts. Most of the re-spondents belonged to the young adults, and the rest were middle-aged adults. The participants possessed diverse educational back-grounds and were employed in their respective localities after the training. The respondents exhibited a moderate utilization of entre-preneurial skills in terms of persistence, innovation, networking, and financial management skills. By sub-domain, however, the re-spondents need more training in financial management. Inferential analysis confirmed a highly significant difference in both employ-ment type and personal income before and after the training pro-gram. These significant improvements indicate the program’s effi-cacy in impacting the socio-economic status of the TESDA graduates. Results also revealed no significant difference in the extent of utili-zation of entrepreneurial skills among the respondents when grouped by post-training income earned or by demographic varia-bles like sex, age, educational attainment, and place of employment. The study concluded that the TESDA training programs are highly effective in driving economic mobility and improving job quality among the graduates. It also successfully nurtures entrepreneurial competencies across heterogeneous groups of training program recipients. These results strongly call for sustained support of the government as an investment to increase the economic mobility of the training program beneficiaries. Future researchers are encour-aged to conduct further studies of this topic in terms of the financial strategies used by the TESDA graduates to have their own business activities.
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