Flexible job search behaviour among unemployed jobseekers: antecedents and outcomes

Vansteenkiste, Sarah; Verbruggen, Marijke; Sels, Luc

doi:10.1080/1359432x.2016.1168402

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“…Sample demographic characteristics are summarized in Table 1. Studies generally used correlational, crosssectional designs (90% of included samples), with a small number of studies employing experimental/intervention (1% of samples; Unite, 2014; Verbruggen & Sels, 2008) or longitudinal/predictive designs with follow-up periods ranging from 3-18 months (9% of samples; Dries, 2015;Fleisher, Khapova, & Jansen, 2014;Galais & Moser, 2009;Gubler et al, 2014a;Herrmann, 2013;Lo Presti, 2008;McArdle, Waters, Briscoe, & Hall, 2007;Ng & Feldman, 2015;Supeli & Creed, 2016;Vansteenkiste, Verbruggen, & Sels, 2016;Woo & Porter, 2017). Table 2 lists construct definitions and example scales.…”

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Protean and boundaryless career orientations: A critical review and meta-analysis

Wiernik¹,

Kostal²

2018

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The protean/boundaryless career concepts refer to people becoming more self-directed and flexible in managing their careers in response to societal shifts in work arrangements. A sizeable literature has emerged on protean/boundaryless career orientations/preferences (PBCO). Questions remain, however, about the structure of PBCO and whether they predict important criteria. The PBCO literature is largely disconnected from broader individual-level career research, making it unclear how PBCO intersect with career models based on other characteristics. We address these questions by systematically reviewing/meta-analyzing PBCO research. Based on 135 demographically/occupationally-diverse samples from 35 countries (45,288 individuals), we find no support for traditional distinctions between protean and boundaryless orientations—protean self-directed, protean values-driven, and boundaryless psychological mobility all load onto a single general factor, labelled “proactive career orientation”, and are only weakly related to boundaryless physical mobility preferences. We also find PBCO predict career self-management behaviors and satisfaction but are less related to non-career-focused attitudes, objective success, or physical mobility behavior. PBCO are strongly related to proactivity-related and self-efficacy personality traits. We use these findings to propose an integrative model for how PBCO and other dispositions mutually influence career behavior. We discuss when PBCO may have advantages over broad traits for understanding careers, implications for counseling practice, and directions for future research.

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Protean and boundaryless career orientations: A critical review and meta-analysis

Wiernik¹,

Kostal²

2018

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“…Numerous studies have shown that unemployment adversely affects the psychological and physical wellbeing of people (McKee-Ryan et al, 2005 ; Mousteri et al, 2018 ; Paul & Moser, 2009 ) and is particularly devastating for unemployed young adults (Mokona et al, 2020 ; Thern et al, 2017 ). Most of the job search literature has focused on job search behavior of the individual (see Hoye et al, 2015 ; Vansteenkiste et al, 2016 ). However, much less research has been aimed at understanding the social support system that is available to the young adult job seeker.…”

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The Perceived Social Support for Job Search Activity Scale (PSS-JSAS): A psychometric evaluation in the context of Ghana

Teye‐Kwadjo

2021

Curr Psychol

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Lack of social support can have a profound impact on the job search efforts of young adults. The Perceived Social Support for Job Search Activity Scale (PSS-JSAS) was developed to assess the quality of social support a job seeker receives during a job search. Building on this previous work, the present study assessed the PSS-JSAS’s factor structure, construct validity, reliability, and measurement invariance in the context of Ghana. Data for the present analysis were provided by 429 recent university graduates. The sample was randomly split into two subsamples for exploratory factor analysis (EFA; n = 223) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; n = 206). EFA and parallel analysis with the first subsample suggested a single factor structure, comprising 6 items out of the original 8 items. In CFA with the second subsample, the construct validity of the single factor structure was found to be optimal. Multi-group CFA with the second subsample showed that the single factor structure was invariant across gender. Further, reliability analysis on the total sample and the subsamples demonstrated good internal consistency reliability for the 6 items. The validity evidence obtained in this study suggests that the PSS-JSAS has good psychometric properties and is thus suitable for assessing social support for job search efforts of university graduates.

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“…Both employed and unemployed workers combine different channels and methods of job searching [48,50,54,55,58,59], although the most educated people, who have higher levels of training and professional qualifications, use a greater number of strategies simultaneously and use predominantly formal methods over informal methods [58]. The Internet stands out as a job-search tool [41,50,53,54,59–64] because it succeeds in smoothing markets and eliminating physical and geographic barriers.…”

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“…Specifically, the study aims to answer the following research question: what differences exist among job-search behaviours developed by individuals at different levels of risk of poverty and social exclusion? Based on previous empirical evidence [37,43,45,52,55,56,58], the starting hypothesis is that people at high risk of social exclusion make use, to a greater extent than people with low risk, of informal strategies that require a low level of job-search skills. Identifying the strategies to which lesser-experienced individuals resort is relevant information for the services and other entities that endeavour to assist this group.…”

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Job-search strategies of individuals at risk of poverty and social exclusion in Spain

2019

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In Spain, the issue of unemployment or precarious employment worsen with globalization, leading to an expansion of the so-called working poor in the labour market. According to previous literature, the economic poverty that is characteristic of this group may accompany poverty competency. In particular, the working poor resort to informal and poorly developed job-search strategies. This study addresses the job search methods used by people at risk of poverty and social exclusion. It provides evidence on the subject and serves as a basis for the adaptation of socio-labour intermediation programmes to this group. The hypothesis of this study is that people at high risk will predominantly use informal strategies that require a low level of job-search skills. A survey-based correlational study is conducted using a questionnaire completed by 279 people participating in socio-labour intermediation programmes developed by the Action against Hunger Foundation (AaHF) in Spain. Information on poverty indicators and on job-search strategies is collected. Data are analysed through cluster analysis, which distinguish two groups of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion (high risk and low risk), followed by a comparison of means (t-test) with a subsequent calculation of effect size using Cohen's d. Results show statistically significant differences with a medium effect size (between 0.45 and 0.50) for the typology of job-search strategies used, confirming the initial hypothesis. These results offer relevant information that should be considered when developing programmes aimed at improving social and labour issues for people at risk of poverty and social exclusion.

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Flexible job search behaviour among unemployed jobseekers: antecedents and outcomes

Cited by 17 publications

References 107 publications

Protean and boundaryless career orientations: A critical review and meta-analysis

Protean and boundaryless career orientations: A critical review and meta-analysis

The Perceived Social Support for Job Search Activity Scale (PSS-JSAS): A psychometric evaluation in the context of Ghana

Job-search strategies of individuals at risk of poverty and social exclusion in Spain

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