The Requirements of Business Set up in Rural Areas of Golestan Province and the Effect of Technical & Vocational Trainings on them

this research aimed to identify requirements of business start-up in rural areas and the effect of technical and vocational training on providing these requirements which carried out as case study in Golestan province.

Research survey method base on questionnaire was employed. The target population of this research contains 1482 rural trainees of technical and vocational organization in Golestan province during 2009-2011. Using Cochran formula 225 trainees were selected and cluster sampling method was used to sampling.

The results of prioritizing of effects of technical and vocational trainings on business start-up in rural areas demonstrated that «achieving technical trainings of related business» and «increasing of self-confidence in business» were most important effects. Factor analysis extracted four factors for effects of technical and vocational trainings on rural business start-up which named: «gaining technical and practical skills of business»، «crating entrepreneurship ability»، «and motivating self-employment» and «public and social skills of business»; that these factors explained 69. 355 percent of variance. The results of Logistic Regression analysis showed that education، experience in former job، self-employment intention، «gaining technical and practical skills of business» and motivating self-employment«has positive effects on probability of students'' self-employment. Limitation/strategies: problem to access the graduated trainees، which suggested providing comprehensive archive of self-employment trend; Practical recommendation: initial need assessment of trainees، skills and motivation، creating link between trainees after graduation and finally providing legal and administrative process to start-up own-business. Originality/values: prioritizing needs and requirements of self-employment in rural areas and introducing the effectiveness of technical and vocational trainings on self-employment.