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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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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
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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
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Kao, Kuo-Yang; Lee, Hui-Ting; Rogers, Altovise; Hsu, Hao-Hsin; Lin, Mi-Ting – Journal of Career Development, 2021
Limited research exists around how to effectively enhance the job search behaviors and self-efficacy of job seekers during the job search process. In the current study, we investigated whether mentoring functions (i.e., career and psychosocial functions) are related to job search behaviors through job search self-efficacy. Moreover, we tested the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Job Search Methods, Self Efficacy, Self Management
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Liu, Dian – Chinese Education & Society, 2021
The growing female population in higher education is not only seen in enrollment growth in domestic institutions, but also in the increased presence and academic mobility of female international students. Over the past decades, many female students from China have done their post-graduate studies overseas, and many of them have attempted…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Females, Doctoral Students, Job Search Methods
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Zhu, Yidan – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
Immigrant mothers, who are socially constructed as an isolated group of people, are often excluded from the studies of adult learners. In adult education, few studies focus on immigrant mothers' ways of learning, mothering, and knowing. Based on a critical ethnographical study, this article sheds lights on immigrant mothers' learning in a foreign…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mothers, Adult Students, Adult Education
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Li, Xiangdong – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
Content analysis of job ads has been used to inform curriculum renewal in many disciplines, but it is not commonplace in Translation Studies. This paper aims to identify qualifications and competences in the translation market through content analysis of translation job ads in China. Four hundred and twenty-nine job ads were collected from the two…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Translation, Interpersonal Competence, Marketing
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Po, Yang; Jianru, Guo; Yinan, Jin – Chinese Education & Society, 2015
The employment quality of college graduates is a recent topic of heated discussion in China. Given the differences in the talent development goals of academic and vocational institutions and in individual job search approaches, this research compares the differences between the job search approaches and actual employment outcomes of graduates of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Employment, Job Search Methods
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Liu, Dian – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
In the expanded higher education in China, middle-class students are found to have better access to job information than their underprivileged counterparts; they also gain better jobs in the labour market. Researchers have turned to social capital theory to explain this phenomenon, claiming that middle-class students with wider social network and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, College Graduates, Middle Class
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Changjun, Yue – Chinese Education & Society, 2014
Based on data from nationwide surveys of graduates conducted in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 by the Institute of Economics of Education, Peking University, this article provides a statistical comparative analysis of employment results and the job search process. It examines the characteristics of college graduate employment in China, as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, College Graduates, Employment
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Changjun, Yue – Chinese Education & Society, 2014
This study used nationwide, randomly sampled data from the Peking University Institute of Economics of Education 2011 survey of college graduates to conduct an empirical analysis of their job satisfaction. The results indicate that work-related factors have a significant effect on the job satisfaction of college graduates, while nonwork factors…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Surveys
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Fengliang, Li; Yandong, Zhao; Yongpo, Tian – Perspectives in Education, 2010
This article investigates the relationship between the number of informational channels and over-education in the outcome of job search, using the survey data of postgraduates in China. The empirical results show: (1) the more the informational channels of job search are used, the lower the probability and the less the intensity of over-education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market, Graduates
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Hu, Yueqin; Gan, Yiqun – Psychological Record, 2011
Using a sample of Chinese college students (n = 216), the present study showed that future-oriented coping negatively correlated with perceived pressure and positively correlated with successful job hunting. The relationship between proactive coping and preventive coping was also explored. Structural equation modeling suggested that a sequence…
Descriptors: College Students, Structural Equation Models, Job Search Methods, Coping
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Erickson, David LeRoy; Kulinna, Pamela Hodges – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2012
This article explores the opportunity of teaching physical education at international schools. Common challenges (e.g., communication differences, adapting to the host culture, teaching individuals from various cultural backgrounds) and positive aspects (e.g., smart and engaged students, a positive learning environment for teachers, great…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, International Schools
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Po, Yang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
Chinese college graduates have faced increasing labor market competition since the expansion of tertiary education. Given rigid market demand, graduates with realistic earnings expectations may experience a more efficient job search. Using the 2008 MYCOS College Graduate Employment Survey, this study finds that a 1000 yuan reduction in a…
Descriptors: Wages, Job Search Methods, Labor Market, College Graduates
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