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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
3.1 Demographic Profile of the BS Entrepreneurship Respondents.

Status of Employment. Employment status is the standing of a worker in a company

based on the contract of work or duration for work done. The survey result reveals that 25 or
(36.25%) are employed, 19 or (27.50%) are overseas Filipino workers. In comparison, 16 or
(23.20%) were self-employed, and nine (13.05%) were either newly terminated, which
causes their unemployed status.
This result indicates that our BSE graduates have tended to search for jobs rather than
invest in their own business, as defined in the survey outcome. Any of them now work as
OFW workers. As [28] claims, they were using cross-country data in his research to chart the
connection between the occurrence of freelance individuals and individuals who have
become wealthy by starting up their own company (as listed in Forbes Magazine) is indirect
and important. Related research [13] where the association between the occurrence of self-
employed employees and net business formation is always favorable in their analysis, and the

regression coefficients show a strong correlation with t-statistics in the region of 3.5-4 for
both self-employment proxies.

Type of Employment. The job status represents the tenure protection that our graduates
demand their success as employed. As reported [32], work status is a key factor influencing
socioeconomic status, which is in turn related to health outcomes. Figure 1 indicates that 23
or (33.33%) of respondents are regularly, 21 or (30.45%) are on a contractual/casual basis,
while 16 or (23.20%) handle their own company and nine or (13.05%) are on a work order.
The results show that most of our graduates are on a permanent basis while the others

occupy a contractual position, especially OFW. Those who manage their own business show
potential. At the same time, there are still graduates on a Job Order basis and those whose
companies cannot afford to give them permanent positions and later terminated them.
Based on the study [34], increasing the number of entities is turning to the short-term
labor supply and demand to be able to compete in the global market. However, those firms
differ widely in their approaches to human resource management.

Job title of Graduates. The positions held by the graduates manifest the effectiveness
and efficiency of the education they obtained from the University in the matter of their ability
to get employment immediately after graduation. For example, figure 1 shows that 19 or
(27.50%) of the graduates are employed as OFW though (they did not disclose what their job

title are), 18 or (26.0%) as BPO, manager of their own business with 16 or (23.20%), as a
worker in LGU 8 or (12.0) while six or (8.70%) as Store supervisor and/and two or (12.0%)
as store manager.