Keywords: professional association; Entrepreneurship; comprehensive quality
Entrepreneurship helps to enhance the economic vitality of the whole society. Especially for college students, entrepreneurship can increase employment opportunities and realize the dreams of young people. In the process of starting a business, entrepreneurs, opportunities, resources and organizations are four essential elements. As a successful entrepreneur, we should not only coordinate the relationship between the three, but also have many talents, including expertise, finance, cooperation and coordination, analysis and so on. It can be seen that the impulse of whim does not guarantee the success of entrepreneurship. In addition to passion, entrepreneurs are more likely to face the upcoming difficulties. They need to be fully aware of the potential risks and respond with a calm and positive attitude. And this attitude towards difficulties and ability to solve difficulties need to be cultivated for a long time. Therefore, during school, college students who are willing to start a business should not only consciously complete their study tasks, but also consciously cultivate their comprehensive abilities such as social practice, grasping opportunities and leading organizations. According to Cannikin Law, their comprehensive strength is the key to the success of entrepreneurs. Here, professional associations play an active and effective role in cultivating students' personal qualities.
First, the significance of the construction of professional student associations
Under the unified leadership of the College Youth League Committee, student associations organize activities by themselves. It is intended to use spare time to organize students with the same hobbies to carry out useful practical learning, exchanges and mutual assistance. In order to improve students' comprehensive quality. Therefore, the construction of student associations and entrepreneurship education are similar in connotation.
The composition of student associations is rich in content and has a wide range of leading directions. Here, the combination of the organization content of the association and the professional teaching of the college is called professional association, and some are called non-professional association. Professional associations can usually encourage students who are deeply interested in their major to cooperate, so as to complete large-scale collective project research. Therefore, the college is very supportive of these associations, and often assigns teachers to help students carry out effective amateur study or participate in social competitions. In fact, these associations not only guide students to carry out necessary studies, but also promote students to think about their future career choices and provide some entrepreneurial ideas.
Second, professional associations are incubators for students' entrepreneurship.
Professional associations to promote students' first venture.
Students' first venture before and after graduation is generally restricted by the surrounding environment, and most of them choose industries related to their majors. The reasons are as follows: (1) After three to four years of knowledge edification, students are familiar with the social needs and industry requirements of this major. This knowledge is undoubtedly an important capital for students to start a business; (2) Students have little contact with society, limited information sources, and lack of guidance in unfamiliar industries; (3) Students have limited investment funds and dare not rashly engage in unfamiliar industries; (4) Through industry practice courses or participating in professional competitions, students can accumulate some social relations and establish entrepreneurial contacts.
It can be seen that students can avoid some risks and improve the success rate of entrepreneurship in this major. Here, the role of professional associations can not be ignored. First of all, professional associations can organize manpower and material resources to conduct efficient industry and enterprise research, which can generally be supported by colleges. Secondly, young people gathered by professional associations have the same professional background, which is convenient for entrepreneurs to find like-minded partners. Secondly, students can organize social practice under the guidance of teachers to avoid personal injury and loss. Finally, students exchange information, exchange gains and losses, and create an atmosphere of career choice and business planning. For freshmen, in such a group, they can get the guidance of their brothers and sisters, adapt to college life faster and think more about their future.
(B) professional associations help to improve the overall quality of students.
Students majoring in entrepreneurship can realize that professional knowledge is an important capital for entrepreneurship. Professional associations have played an important role in promoting students' professional learning. As far as the college is concerned, the combination of club activities and regular education in the school can enhance the learning atmosphere and enhance students' interest in learning, so they are willing to provide convenience for the club in the use of the studio and the practice of the training base. For students, they must participate in various activities organized by professional associations, which invisibly increases their learning pressure and motivation. For example, Yike Property Agency, Shui Mu Oil Painting Agency and Sculpture Agency of Suzhou Academy of Arts and Crafts have always hired professional teachers to provide professional advice to students, and urged every student to use their spare time for professional training. Every once in a while, members' works must be publicly displayed. This not only increases the study pressure of students, but also facilitates the communication between majors. For teachers, they can quickly organize students with excellent professional achievements to plan, organize or participate in social activities, which is helpful to complete their own scientific research projects. For example, the Industrial Design Department of Suzhou Institute of Arts and Crafts and Jiangsu Toy Association jointly launched the Haibei National Toy Competition, and the toy club of this department undertook a lot of work in organizing publicity and making professional works. For the society, professional associations can directly provide services for the society. For example, under the guidance of teachers, Yike Products Society, Department of Industrial Design, Suzhou Institute of Arts and Crafts, designs and develops new products for Kunshan Tengyang Metal Products Co., Ltd. every semester.
The establishment of professional associations not only promotes students' professional learning, but also exercises other abilities of members. The organization, activities, personnel arrangement and financial management of the club are all operated by the students themselves. For example, a seemingly simple recruitment activity requires club members to do a good job in publicity, financial statistics, and school year activities. The chairman of the association is elected democratically, and a financial team and a purchasing team are set up. Students here simulate social reality, play different social roles and complete their respective division of labor. Students grew up in a single school environment, and their understanding of the outside world of the campus is vague, and they are also at a loss about the social posts that suit them. Therefore, students can know themselves better and choose more suitable career goals for themselves after participating in various activities of professional associations.
By participating in a series of activities, students who are determined to start a business can realize the gap between individuals and entrepreneurship. Most importantly, they realize that some seemingly simple things will face many difficulties in operation. Giving up halfway can never achieve personal goals. Persistence is one of the key factors for the success of all activities and even entrepreneurship.
Professional association is a guide for students to start their own businesses.
Students are at a loss when they enter the university, and the concepts of career and entrepreneurship are vague. We should guide and educate them to establish the ideal of starting a business and make necessary preparations for starting a business. The instructors of professional associations are not only professional teachers, but also full-time counselors and other students' ideological and political workers. These teachers often help students to realize their activity plans, and provide help in expansion and other aspects. Secondly, carry out active and effective vocational education in the community to guide students to care about their career prospects after entering school. For example, hiring employment guidance teachers to hold lectures to let students know about the employment situation; Hire a psychology teacher for consultation, so that students can be psychologically prepared to cope with society. Finally, organize various activities to promote students' entrepreneurship. For example, hiring successful entrepreneurs to come to the school to exchange entrepreneurial experience; Arrange graduates to return to their alma mater to exchange entrepreneurial experience; Promotion of preferential policies for new graduates' entrepreneurship. These activities effectively guide students to embark on the road of entrepreneurship.
The important role of professional associations in students' entrepreneurship
Professional associations promote students to go better and further on the road of entrepreneurship. Doudou Toy Club of Suzhou Institute of Arts and Crafts was founded in the spring of 2005. The original intention of the club was to organize students to carry out spare-time study. Under the guidance of professional teachers, the members made extraordinary efforts, and in the second year, they publicly exhibited their personal creative works in the college. This exhibition has won unanimous praise and attracted more students to participate in community activities. In the summer of 2007, members of the club decided to open a cooperative studio after participating in enterprise practice many times. "Jane" and "Park" toy studios came into being. They have made their own creative dolls and sought business opportunities in society. Soon they realized that their products were very similar, which led to competitive sales. At the end of 2007, the two studios merged into "Fabric Simple Toy Design Studio", and six students started their first business. They have reached an agreement with the off-campus jewelry store to sell their finished products in the store. Doudou Toy Club helps studios to display and publicize their products in other colleges and universities by making use of the links between colleges and universities. At the same time, as always, cultivate the new strength of toy design. Individual outstanding schoolmates in the club are hired by the studio and can use their professional expertise to increase their economic income. It can be seen that the role of associations in promoting students' entrepreneurship is all-round. Sometimes provide information for students to enter the industry; Sometimes give students the support of technical equipment; Sometimes it is instilling in students the idea of starting a business; Sometimes it is to solve the problems in the process of students' entrepreneurship ... In short, students can get help from professional associations at all stages of entrepreneurship.
Third, the difficulties in the construction of professional associations.
Professional associations are organized and managed by students spontaneously, so they will naturally encounter some difficulties in the process of operation.
(1) The community needs excellent people.
The leading teachers of professional associations should not only complete the study guidance, but also understand the industry background and social requirements. As a trainer, we should know how to cultivate students' social adaptability, how to help students find favorable opportunities to avoid being cheated and how to do a good job in marketing. Therefore, it is not enough for a professional association to rely on only one instructor. It is necessary to set up a training group to guide students to start their future careers with collective wisdom.
(b) Training outstanding community leaders
As the core of professional associations, the president, vice president, financial manager and buyer are all students themselves. They lack the necessary experience in dealing with interpersonal relationships, outreach and other affairs. An excellent club requires its leaders not only to have prestige among their classmates, but also to be calm when things go wrong, to be able to coordinate the friction between classmates, and to organize activities regardless of fame and fortune. The cultivation of these comprehensive qualities needs to start an all-round education system.
Seeking higher quality information
Professional associations are established on campus, but they must look outside the school. Encourage students to take the initiative to go out of school, find opportunities suitable for entrepreneurship, and capture information conducive to self-development. Students should remind each other and communicate with each other. However, at present, there are many fraudulent phenomena in society, and how to distinguish the true and false information has become a difficult problem for leading teachers. This requires the society to properly supervise enterprise internships and social part-time jobs to avoid the damage to students' interests.
Professional student associations play an important role in guiding and guiding students to start their own businesses. Especially for students who are starting their own businesses for the first time, professional associations are a platform for finding partners, seeking industry information and getting help from colleges. As one of the incubators of students' entrepreneurship, professional associations are playing an increasingly important role.