Job-searching

The outcomes and correlates of job search objectives: searching to leave or searching for leverage?

The authors investigate a previously overlooked yet important objective for employee job search--seeking leverage against the current employer. They explore the outcomes and correlates of leverage-seeking search and how it may differ from the more traditional objective for engaging in job search--to change jobs. Results show that leverage-seeking and separation-seeking search objectives associa...

Relationship between Job Opportunities and Economic Environments Measured from Data in Internet Job Searching Sites

This study investigates the number of job opportunities collected from a Japanese job searching site (“fromA navi”) and an international job searching site (“Indeed”). We confirm that a relationship between the number of job opportunities and socioeconomic quantities (the population, the numbers of firms and workers) in each 1-km grid square in Japan. The number of workers is the best explanato...

A case analysis of knowledge sharing implementation and job searching in Malaysia

Personality moderates the links of social identity with work motivation and job searching

Work motivation is critical for successful school-to-work transitions, but little is known about its determinants among labor market entrants. Applying a social identity framework, we examined whether work motivation and job searching are social-contextually determined. We expected that some job seekers are more sensitive to contextual influence, depending on their personality. Mediation analys...

Training on the Job: Learning While Searching in an Engineering Workplace

Professional search in an engineering context includes users on different stages from novice to expert. We discuss how searching as learning can help to understand searching in a larger information seeking, workspace, and learning environment, giving users the tools and understanding to become experts over time. We present some findings of user interaction with engineering domain retrieval syst...