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Navigating across Academic Labour Markets: A Bourdieusian Reflexive Narrative of a Chinese International Doctoral Graduate's Employment Experiences
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Kun Dai; Guanglun Michael Mu – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Much research has investigated international graduate employability in home "or" host countries. However, limited studies have accounted for such employability "across" the home and the host. Drawing on Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, this paper critically examined the first author's narrative of his employment…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Labor Market, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries
The Association between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Job-Seeking Anxiety: A Moderated Mediation Model
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Shunying Zhao; Wencheng Yi; Baojuan Ye; Yadi Zeng; Yifan Yang – Journal of Career Development, 2024
The current study examined the mediating role of perceived risk of COVID-19 and the moderating role of hope in the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and job-seeking anxiety. 812 advanced undergraduate students participated in this investigation (M[subscript age] = 21.95, SD[subscript age] = 1.37; 69% female). Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Job Search Methods
From the Classroom to the Industry: An Exploration of Sport Management Students' Transitions to Employment
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Ashley Gardner; Adam Love – Sport Management Education Journal, 2024
Thousands of students graduate from academic sport management programs annually with hopes of breaking into the sport industry. However, securing full-time employment becomes a challenge for many sport management graduates. To examine the transitional period in which graduates seek employment, the current study interviewed people who had recently…
Descriptors: Athletics, Business Administration Education, Industry, Employment
The Career Search of College Graduates with Autism
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Elizabeth Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The qualitative study used two case studies to explore the career search experience of college graduates with autism. The study included interviews with college graduates diagnosed with ASD, interviews with family members of the college graduate, and interviews with hiring supervisors of the college graduates with ASD to glean information…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, College Graduates, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Attitudes
A Job Club for Older Job Seekers: Change in Attitude and Perceived Utility during Training
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Nakai, Yoshie; Hill, Stephen C.; Snell, Andrea F.; Ferrell, Jared Z. – Journal of Career Development, 2018
The purpose of the current study is to explore the changes in participants' attitude toward job search and perceived utility of training during job search interventions, called job clubs, designed for older adults. Latent growth modeling was used to examine the trajectories of these outcomes during 3-week-long job clubs. In addition, the study…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Training, Intervention, Older Adults
"It's Like Writing Yourself into a Codependent Relationship with Someone Who Doesn't Even Want You!" Emotional Labor, Intimacy, and the Academic Job Market in Rhetoric and Composition
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini – College Composition and Communication, 2016
Drawing on forty-eight interviews with individuals who participated on the academic job market in rhetoric and composition between 2010 and 2015, this essay shows how conceptualizing the academic job search as an intimate endeavor can offer insights for understanding the rhetorical production of affective binds within institutional contexts. This…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Job Search Methods, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)