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Race, Economic Class, and Job-Seeking Behavior: An Exploratory Study
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Broad Skill Focused Job Seeking: A Study of Intervention and Employment Outcomes
<p>The job search has been the subject of research across many disciplines adopting varied perspectives. However, the industrial-organizational psychology literature on the job search has failed to properly consider the role of individual differences in thought about the utility of job skills …
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Job Seeking and Career Planning Among Graduates of a Teacher Aide Program
… graduates describes: (1) the graduate's use of job seeking and career planning strategies, (2) the relationship of these strategies to age, income, level of education, level of occupation and level of spouse's occupation, (3) the relationship between career planning scores and job seeking …
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Job seeking and job application in social networking sites : predicting job seekers' behavioral intentions
… revolutionizing the way in which employers and job seekers connect and interact with each other. Despite the reported benefits of SNSs with respect to finding a job, there are issues such as privacy concerns that might be deterring job seekers from using these sites in their attempts to secure a …
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Boundary work in the process of informal job seeking : an ethnographic study of Cape Town roadside workseekers
… by the side of the road waiting to be offered jobs with job opportunities and skills. The purpose of the ethnographic study described here was to assess members‘ experiences and attitudes towards the work or income-earning opportunities introduced to members by MSR. The overall goal of the …
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Relationship of employment status and sex to self-reported job- seeking behavior of selected black secondary graduates
This study was undertaken to determine the effects of each of the production typewriting factors of keystroking, planning, and error correction on proficiency at typing business letters at two levels of instruction, at three levels of difficulty, and under three conditions. The conditions were …
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“It’s a game, you've got to play the game”: Motivation and ‘Being Employable’ in Ontario Unemployment Supports
… case study was conducted in one agency providing job-seeking assistance and services to unemployed Ontarians in a region experiencing high unemployment. Research methods included participant observation of the processes of service provision, as well as interviews with seventeen unemployed …
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Deaf people and career advice: Applying structuration theory to encounters between deaf and hearing people
… deaf people and hearing advisers in career or job seeking interviews. Issues of disability, emancipatory research and methods used in deaf research are explored together with the medical and social models of disability and the complexity of discrimination. It is set to a background of the …
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Wage Determinants of College Graduates in China : a Case Study of Nanjing
… in different facets such as employer ownership, job-seeking method and mobility rate. Apart from all the above, this study also focuses on China’s unique labor market, as conditioned by China’s household registration system (hukou) and formal post in the public sector (bianzhi).
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Life begins at forty : a sociological study of unemployment of persons aged 40 years and over in Malta
… Course fairly well. Nevertheless, the module on Job-Seeking Skills, and the utility of the course in finding employment are not best-rated. The variables of education and number of household breadwinners had a significant impact on responses, though not in a progressive manner. Those having a …
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Relationship Between Secondary Industry Certifications and Employment in the Particular Credentialed Area
… exist, such as furthering of education prior to job seeking, there is concern that certified individuals are not gaining employment post-graduation in the Cumberlands Workforce Area of Kentucky. </p>
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The psychological repercussions of unemployment: A study of Windhoek's "street unemployment"
… certain street points to be picked up for a day-job) entails and what its psychological repercussions are. Seligman's reformulated Theory of Learned Helplessness was chosen as the theoretical framework for the study. The empirical investigation followed a qualitative-quantitative research …
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Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality
… how individuals are governed according to a ‘job-seeking’ rationality which gains a concrete manifestation through techniques such as caseworker meetings, the provision of job-search evidence, and sanctions. It draws on 42 qualitative semi-structured interviews across a gender-balanced cohort …
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The impact of work seeker support platforms on the development of South Africa's unemployed youth
… of many young South Africans, the high costs of job-seeking, a lack of social capital, a lack of access to relevant job-seeker information, as well as the adverse mental health impacts of alienation, poverty and unemployment. With the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the rise of ICT …
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Higher education and employment: exploring experiences of graduates in Lusaka district.
… and thematic analysis. The study found out that jobs are hard to find, and that job seeking is very stressful and frustrating. The study further found that graduates have had to learn additional new skills useful in seeking employment. These include networking, participating in job fairs, …
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Higher education and employment: exploring experiences of graduates in Lusaka district.
… and thematic analysis. The study found out that jobs are hard to find, and that job seeking is very stressful and frustrating. The study further found that graduates have had to learn additional new skills useful in seeking employment. These include networking, participating in job fairs, …
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Creating a Measure of Dysfunctional Office and Organizational Politics: The DOOP Scale
… reward accuracy $-$.35 and $-$.34; global job satisfaction, $-$.43 and $-$.42; employee turnover,.23 and.26; productivity, $-$.33 and $-$.32; job stress,.25 and.27; positive change orientation, $-$.23 and $-$.23; creativity, $-$.40 and $-$.38; role ambiguity,.45 and.44; and autonomy, $-$.48 …
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Engaging the angst of unemployed youth in post‐industrial Japan: a narrative self‐help approach
… problems and clarify their needs in regard to job seeking. However, the effectiveness of activation policies is limited for individuals with long‐term unemployment precisely because of their angst, which prevents them from acting rationally. This thesis explores another model to support such …
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Zulu cultural traditions : a draw card for tourism in KwaZulu Natal with special reference to the Lebombo spatial development initiative
… food preparations, crafts and being aware of the job opportunities offered by the government's plans about the Lebombo Spatial Development Initiative (LSDI). The underlying motive of the study is to create awareness that KwaZulu Natal is, and forever will be a tourist attraction destination. It is …
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