As an entrepreneur, you’re going to make a huge commitment of time, money, and personal energy to your endeavor. Think it out before you get too far down the road. Here’s a job description to focus and organize your thinking; edit the requirements to suit your purposes.
JOB TITLE: WOULD-BE ENTREPRENEUR
JOB PURPOSE: BECOMES AN ENTREPRENEUR
by
evaluating suitability, independent action, and hard work; considering personal attributes to be successful; taking the initiative to begin the venture; getting the business, marketing, and financial plans in writing; financing the venture; always presenting a “positive view” of the business; moving forward; never looking back.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
% of
time
____ 1. EXAMINES WHETHER STARTING A BUSINESS IS THE RIGHT MOVE
by
answering “yes” to these three basic questions: Do I really want to operate independently and be the person making all the decisions and shouldering all the responsibility?, Am I willing to work hard and make the sacrifices starting a business entails? Do I have the self-confidence and self-discipline that will enable me to build my new enterprise into a success?
____ 2. DETERMINES WHETHER “SUCCESS” ATTRIBUTES ARE PRESENT
by
considering whether I have perseverance, the desire and willingness to take the initiative, competitiveness, self-reliance, a strong need to achieve, self-confidence, flexibility, and good physical health, self-motivation, business and industry knowledge, organization and management capabilities, marketing skill, customer/vendor relations savvy, and vision.
____ 3. DEVELOPS A BUSINESS PLAN
by
calculating start-up costs, projecting sales; determining ongoing cash requirements, breakeven points, and profit margins; establishing budgets.
____ 4. DESIGNS A MARKETING PLAN
by
assessing competition; determining what has worked for them; learning creative ways to establish a market niche.
____ 5. FINANCES THE ENTERPRISE
by
raising capital from friends and relatives; obtaining funding assistance from the Small Business Administration; investing personal funds; re-financing real estate debt; taking out personal loans.
____ 6. GOES FULL STEAM AHEAD
by
realizing that future pay checks depend on business success; gathering a good team of legal, accounting, and other specialists; obtaining media coverage for the new venture; reaching out to the community; networking continuously; always presenting a positive view of the enterprise; “no whining;” never looking back; staying focused; thinking tomorrow.
Copyright © 2005 Roger J. Plachy and Sandra J. Plachy.
Don’t waste your time with a mind-numbing laundry list of 20, 30, or more tasks. What you need, instead, is a statement of the results you must accomplish by performing all of the tasks. (As a would-be entrepreneur, if you don’t appreciate the difference between doing and accomplishing by now, don’t give up your day job.)
The above results-oriented job description style focuses attention on the main requirements, and organizes your responsibilities efficiently.
Our Results-Oriented Job Description uses a three-line structure, with the expected result in boldface caps to focus attention on the key issue—as well as to explain the significance of your actions.
Good luck!
WouldBe Entrepreneurs Need a Job Description - To learn more about this author, visit Roger Plachy's Website.
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Roger Plachy
(Visit Roger's Website)
Roger Plachy and Sandy Plachy are a
husband-wife human resources management
consulting team.
Their interest in results-oriented
thinking and managing employee performance
led them to establish the Job Results
Management Institute, and to create the
Results-Oriented Job Description. At www.jrmi.com they
offer the world’s largest database of
results-oriented job descriptions.
They have also responded to management’s
need to keep employment actions centered
on job requirements instead of
personality, creating management forms
tailored to each job description, for
interviewing, orienting, training, and
appraising performance.
Free family job descriptions on their site
bring a results-orientation to non-work
aspects of life.
Roger and Sandy consult with all types of
organizations worldwide, and are authors
of the books, Results-Oriented Job
Descriptions, More Results-Oriented Job
Descriptions, Performance Management, and
Building a Fair Pay Program. Roger also
wrote: When I Lead, Why Don’t They Follow?
At
www.results-orientedthinking.com, they
offer commentary about their
results-oriented management approach.
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