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Terengganu State Government set a vision to make "Terengganu a Fully Developed State by Year 2020." Expectations are amortized through the implementation of programs and public projects in line with the Ninth Malaysia Plan (2006) and Tenth (2011-2015. State Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) is an agency of the state government have a role and responsibility to help and provide a platform for students to apply the knowledge of entrepreneurship through direct involvement in secondary schools. Secondary school students who attended the Program Tunas Niaga realize how important they are to involved in the field of entrepreneurship. Five predictive factors such as finance, role model, barriers, social identity and entrepreneurial skills to influence their intention to involved in the field of entrepreneurship. Goodness of employment entrepreneurship as an intermediary link between the four predictive factors such as finance, role model, barriers and entrepreneurial skills with a intention to involved in the field of entrepreneurship. The importance of predictive factors such as finance, role model, barriers and entrepreneurial skills can be used by the authorities to encourage and foster intention to involved in entrepreneurship career among secondary school students who participate in the Program Tunas Niaga.

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This research aimed to study the influence of predictor factors on inclination toward entrepreneurship career involving the benefits of entrepreneurship career as a mediator. The method of the study is quantitative approach using 161 sets of questionnaires distributed by simple random method among the form four students from entrepreneurship club in 16 secondary schools in Terengganu. Data was analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) involving descriptive test, Multiple Regression and Hierarchical Regression. Descriptive test finding found that most of the respondents have entrepreneurship career inclination at the high level. The findings of the Multiple Regression analysis found that predictor factors such as social norm, entrepreneurship skills and role model influenced entrepreneurship career inclination. Meanwhile, Hierarchical Regression analysis found that social norms, entrepreneurship skills and role model could influence the entrepreneurship career inclination through mediator the benefits of entrepreneurship career. The findings from these two analysis found that role model is the most dominant factor in influencing of entrepreneurship career inclination directly or indirectly by using the benefits of entrepreneurship career as a mediator. The findings of this study add value to the existing findings of the predictor factors affecting the inclination and the benefits of entrepreneurship career as mediator.

Entrepreneurship is a tool that the Malaysian Governmentsed to uplift income from the middle-income trap. Therefore, this study aims to identify the predictor factors that influence the inclination of entrepreneurship club members towards the entrepreneurship career by using factor analysis to achieve the Government goal through the Ministry of Education Malaysia.  In other words, this study uses several tests related to validation factor analysis to determine the predictor factors that influence the propensity of entrepreneurship club members towards entrepreneurship careers. This study involved 161 respondents who were members of secondary school entrepreneurship clubs in the State of Terengganu who were randomly selected.  Data gathered were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) involving factor analysis and descriptive test. The factor analysis has identified nine predictor factors. The first predictor factor is role model, followed by a barrier, social identity, personality, entrepreneurship skill, social norm, financial, entrepreneurship knowledge, and prosperity. Prosperity was the new predictor factor that was identified using factor analysis in this research. The descriptive test found that the most influenced predictor factor of the entrepreneurship career inclination was finance, followed by personality, social identification, role model, social norm, prosperity, and barrier. Meanwhile, entrepreneurship knowledge was found as a predictor factor which uncertain in influencing the entrepreneurship career inclination among secondary school entrepreneurship club members in the State of Terengganu. The results of this study imply that the Government should give financial factors the priority through the Ministry of Education in formulating policies towards producing more young generation of entrepreneurs in Malaysia because that predictor has a positive impact on secondary school students who were the members of entrepreneurship clubs.