Abstract:

Global job prospects require entrepreneurial competencies to be more competitive. Malaysia has faced unemployment every year, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. As such, the country's educational landscape has shifted the paradigm between the digital and physical worlds, transitioning towards inventive thinking, effective communication, high productivity, and spiritual norms and values. This transformation aims to produce a society with entrepreneurial competencies such as creative thinking, teamwork, and networking. Hence, this study aimed to identify students’ entrepreneurial competency levels. This quantitative study employed a cross-sectional survey. A total of 422 high school students taking business subjects were selected based on a stratified random sampling technique, beginning with cluster sampling, followed by simple random sampling to obtain the study respondents. The questionnaire items’ validity and reliability were determined through expert validation and pilot tests. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 28. The findings of this study indicate that the level of entrepreneurial competency among students was moderately high. This means that students’ entrepreneurial competence still needs to be improved so that they can face globalization and the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Keywords:

Entrepreneurial competence, entrepreneurship education, high school students, creative thinking.