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Change in Job Search Behaviors and Employment Outcomes,☆☆

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Abstract

This study examined the change in job-search behaviors and employment outcomes of 121 recent university graduates who had not found employment in their final term prior to graduation. Participants completed a questionnaire prior to graduation and again 4 months later. The results of repeated measures analysis of variance indicated that job seekers increased their active job search behavior, formal job-source usage, and search intensity and decreased their job-search anxiety. Although self-esteem and job-search self-efficacy were related to job-search behaviors and outcomes, they did not moderate the change in job seekers' search behavior. As well, change in job-search behavior was related to the number of job interviews and employment status, and the relation between change in job-search behavior and employment status was mediated by the number of job offers received.

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This study was supported by a research grant from the Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'aide à la Recherche (94-NC-0894), Province of Quebec, Canada. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dallas, Texas, 1998.

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Address correspondence and reprint requests to Alan M. Saks, Department of Administrative Studies, Atkinson College, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3. E-mail: [email protected].

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