The effect of vocational-personality interest on entrepreneurial orientation among job seekers applicants residing in Tehran city

The present research aims the effect of vocational-personality interest on entrepreneurial orientation. The different vocational-personality types in this research include: realistic، investigative، artistic، social، enterprising and conventional. And entrepreneurial orientation includes elements such as risk taking، innovation، pro activeness، competition and independence. To carry out the research 81 job applicants from Tehran who had applied in Sandoghe Mehre Emam Reza in the first half of the year 1390 were selected to answer the vocational-personality interest and entrepreneurial tendency questionnaire. The research method in this study is quantitive descriptive (not experimental) which is a kind of correlation studies. The aim of the research is predicting the change independent variables (entrepreneurial intention) considering the changes in dependent variable (vocational-personality interest). And regression analysis was applied in this regard. The results proved that having social personality influences the entrepreneurial orientation.