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Kobrin, Jennifer D'haem – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
Requests by education and workforce-related technologies to reveal intimate aspects of adult learners' identities have become a common practice in a platform society, where personal information is monetized for "free" products and services. This article uses a sociomaterial lens to investigate how an older job seeker in a community…
Descriptors: Adults, Job Applicants, Job Search Methods, Information Technology
Molly Gordon; Jason A. Grissom; Alyssa Blanchard; Ashley Ellison; Mollie Rubin; Francisco Arturo Santelli – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Purpose: Urban school districts often face challenges in filling principal vacancies with effective leaders, especially in high-needs schools. Prospective principals' engagement with the job application process may contribute to these challenges. The goal of this study is to better understand the job search strategies and behaviors of prospective…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Job Applicants, Job Application, Urban Schools
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Molly F. Gordon; Jason A. Grissom; Alyssa Blanchard; Ashley B. Ellison; Mollie Rubin; Francisco Arturo Santelli – Grantee Submission, 2024
Purpose: Urban school districts often face challenges in filling principal vacancies with effective leaders, especially in high-needs schools. Prospective principals' engagement with the job application process may contribute to these challenges. The goal of this study is to better understand the job search strategies and behaviors of prospective…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Job Applicants, Job Application, Urban Schools
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Jason L Brown; Peter McIlveen; Harsha N Perera; Sara J Hammer – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
Dispositional employability can be understood as a psychosocial process that facilitates the enactment of behaviors directed toward career self-management. This investigation aimed to test the validity of a measure of dispositional employability to predict salient career outcomes in university students. Two studies using distinct samples of…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Personality Traits, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Bora Lee – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
The present study examined how the personal importance of work and family were associated with job search behavior, and whether there were any gender differences in those associations. A sample of 284 career-interrupted women and men participated in the study. Accordingly, job search behavior and antecedent variables--including personal importance…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Job Search Methods, Job Applicants, Dislocated Workers
Yihan Zhu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores the navigation and approaches that Chinese undergraduate international students in the US are utilizing for their career development. The enrollment of undergraduate international students in the U.S. has been growing for over a decade. More specifically, China is one of the top places of origin from which international…
Descriptors: Career Development, Asians, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students
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Samson Onyeluka Chukwuedo; Ifeanyi Benedict Ohanu – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
This study investigates the effects of a career-related practical skill-based training intervention on job search intention via vocational identity statuses (viz. exploration, commitment, and reconsideration), job search self-efficacy behavior (JSSE-B), and career-related practical skills possessed among university students. The participants (N =…
Descriptors: College Students, Vocational Interests, Professional Identity, Job Search Methods
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Alexandra M. Dunn; Samira Fallah – Journal of Management Education, 2024
Searching for jobs is a stressful process for students. When faced with unknowns of the future, many students avoid proactively planning their job search. This article describes an exercise, rooted in scenario planning, which is a tool widely used during an organization's strategy development process. To help students prepare for the job search…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Resilience (Psychology), Stress Variables, Vignettes
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Christopher Leo; Timothy Halloran; Carlos Valdez; Ioanna Martinou; Leslie Connell; Jennifer Morin – Marketing Education Review, 2024
This study examines the role of the popular job searching website LinkedIn and its effects on personal branding, self-esteem and job search behavior self-efficacy. The experiment examined the pre and post changes of these constructs after participants completed a LinkedIn training workshop and found statistically significant results for the…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Self Efficacy, Web Sites, Job Search Methods
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Moriah West; Jesse McCain; Josipa Roksa – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: While ample literature describes students' experiences during graduate school, fewer studies examine how doctoral students transition into full-time employment post degree completion. The purpose of this study is to examine how faculty advisors, as well as other individuals, shape students' experiences during a critical period in their…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Biology, Science Education
Carly D. Robinson; Katharine Meyer; Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury; Amirpasha Zandieh; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
College students make job decisions without complete information. As a result, they may rely on misleading heuristics ("interesting jobs pay badly") and pursue options misaligned with their goals. We test whether highlighting job characteristics changes decision making. We find increasing the salience of a job's monetary benefits…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Career Choice, Tutoring, Compensation (Remuneration)
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Sally Smith; C. F. Smith – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Being a graduate is no longer sufficient to secure a fulfilling and rewarding graduate role. This paper drew on Tomlinson's Graduate Capital Model to analyse the job-seeking narratives of recent computing graduates searching for a graduate job. Participants (n = 38), drawn from a national placement programme, were interviewed up to 12 months after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Job Search Methods, Employment Potential
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Hannah E. Grosman; Diego Aragon-Guevara; Goldie A. McQuaid; Gregory L. Wallace; Nancy Raitano Lee – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Obtaining and maintaining employment can be a challenge for autistic adults and learning challenges may be related to vocational outcomes in this population. The present study sought to evaluate the Learning Needs Screening Tool to identify autistic job seekers who may benefit from additional services to obtain employment. A total of 401 autistic…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Employment Potential, Labor Force
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Megan Lambertz-Berndt – Communication Teacher, 2024
The activity permits students to reflect on the ways their own identities are privileged or further marginalized during the recruitment process. Students determine ways to re-create job descriptions that remove inequitable language, such as shifting from trait-based language to behavioral-based language and the inclusion of expectation-lowering…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Job Search Methods, Occupational Information, Language Usage
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Merve Gerçek – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationships between career competencies and job search self-efficacy via the serial multiple mediation effect of career adaptability and self-perceived employability within multiple theoretical frameworks. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopts a cross-sectional design to collect data at a specific…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Employment Potential, Vocational Schools, College Students
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