• The unemployment benefit
• How can the SOC help me?
• Guidance on finding a job
  • The labour market
  • Know the jobs
  • The professional aim
  • Where to find a job?
  • The curriculum vitae
  • The cover letter
  • The job interview
  • Selection tests
  • Professional cards
  • Work abroad
  • Self-occupation
    • Previous difficulties
    • The initial planning
    • Steps to follow to create a company
    • Legal ways
    • The enterprising person
    • Self-company service
    • The unemployment capitalization
    • Franchises
  • Working in the Public Administration
  • Teleworking
• Job offers search engine
• Job placement of persons with added difficulties
• Training services
• Training courses search engine
• Questions and answers
• Online procedures

The initial planning

Company plan

There are several aspects to take into account when we decide to be self-employed:

• The own ability
• The product or the service
• The market
• The financing way
• The organization.

This five questions are included in the company plan which shows the present and the future of our project. The document shows the evolution of the company. We can also know if we move away from our aim in order to rectify.

The document is a reference to analyze and detect opportunities in the market. We must take into account the first criticisms and problems.

The enterprising persons make a work plan when they start the commercial activity. They know that they have weak points. But also they have strong ones that augur a good future.

The own ability

It’s necessary to know the possibilities of our partner and also our own abilities to make our company come true. We must know the possible contradictions and inabilities. Surprises are usually the first step to lose money.

The product or the service

A lot of business seem very profitable. Nevertheless they require to spend a lot of time for carry them out.

You need to know the suppliers, the payment terms, the characteristics of the service, the investments, the infrastructures, the technology cost, the organization, the licences, etc. All this questions are not only for big companies.

Small companies also needs to take into account all these things for developing the plan with success.

The market

We usually forget the market. The new company appearance implies more products and services.

Even if the product is very original we need a planning. For example, we must know the competitors and their prices. We have to study our product and its launch and distribution. We will also take into account the advertising that we will do about it. Moreover, the price of the product must be appropriate.

It’s interesting to know our competitors, not only from our immediate environmet, but also worldwide. Luckily nowadays all distances are reduced to one or two travel days long, so the worldwide communication is instantaneous.

The financing way

If we want alienate capital, we must take into account that we need to convince the agents who can give us the viability of our plan. We must also show guarantees of refund anticipation loans. Banks must answer to customers and shareholders. So it will be necessary:

• Show an elaborated plan.
• Show that you believe in it and that you have collaborated in the business that you want to start.
• When you ask for a loan or a credit, the bank studies:
  • The contents of the plan, the product characteristics, the services, the comercial and financial plans.
  • If there are experts who believe in the viability of the plan.
  • The guarantees of refund anticipation loans.
  • The contribution of your own economic resources. If you don’t want to invest, you will convince nobody to invest, especially through a loan.

For this reason, it’s very important to analyze the financing way, study the invest that you can do and if you will need help.

The self-company service offers technical help. They can recommend you the best way to ask for the resources that you need. The organization gets involved with all plans and certifies them, if they are viable. What is more, the SOC has signed agreements with some banks in order to offer good conditions in the financing way.

The organization

The company needs to be structured. It’s necessary to analyze the legal questions, to know how to hire collaborators and have the best organization to be efficient.