Entrepreneurial Opportunities and the New Employment Domains on the Current Labour Market - Empirical Research

摘要

The current social-economic context, influenced by the crisis, both at local, global level, highlighted more than ever the entrepreneurial phenomenon. The entrepreneurship is the basic element supporting the European strategies in the field of labour force employment, alongside with the improvement of the employment capacity, the increase in the employees' and employers' capacity to adapt. But which is the profile of an entrepreneur? What are the educational-formative and social dimensions of the entrepreneurship?This paper aims at presenting the results of an empirical research regarding the development of entrepreneurial opportunities, with a specific reference to the new occupational fields on the labour market, performed within the POSDRU Project "Developing the entrepreneurial competences - an efficient alternative of adaptation to the labour market" (ID 62353).The research focused on the directions and modalities of developing the entrepreneurial opportunities, with direct reference to the new fields of labour market occupation. From the methodological point of view, the research data were gathered by using as specific instruments: the focus-group interview and the questionnaire, differentiated on distinct categories of the target group aimed at by means of the project: employees and employers, and persons wanting to initiate an activity independently (students and master's degree students). Following this empirical research, a series of conclusions could be drawn and synthetized, as concerns the need of training and information in the entrepreneurial domain, the entrepreneur's profile in the respondents' perception, the competences required for starting-up a business, the opportunities offered by the Romanian business environment, etc. Furthermore, mention is also made and highlighted of the advantages, limits and perspectives of the entrepreneurship in the current period, in the vision of the interviewed persons.