Promotion of Entrepreneurship Skills in Counselling Among Nigeria Youths

Abstract

The paper considered entrepreneurship skills as processes of counseling youths towards equipping themselves with new innovations to become self-employ, receiving in return personal satisfaction and independence. Actually inculcating entrepreneurship skills at all level of education and research institutes is a pave way for becoming a developed nation. Promotion of entrepreneurship in counseling is broadly application of ingenuity across a wide expansion of human endeavours. In the knowledge-based economy, learning of entrepreneurship skills becomes extremely paramount in determining the fate of individuals, firms and national economics. Paradoxically, this can be attained through activity-based instruction and counseling towards acquisition of requisite skills necessary for employment and productivity. Some of appropriate scientific instructional strategies of promoting entrepreneurship include; hinds-on and minds-on method, peer tutoring, cooperative learning, inquiring, demonstration, discovering, experimental and field trip method. Thus, this paper focused on entrepreneurship education, vocational and counsel ing services, entrepreneurial qualities in counseling as well as strategies for effective entrepreneurship skills. Basically, recommendations and conclusion were given.