Die aktuelle Ausgabe des Newsletter für Freunde, Absolventen und Ehemalige der Technischen Universität Chemnitz.

Die aktuelle Ausgabe des Newsletter für Freunde, Absolventen und Ehemalige der Technischen Universität Chemnitz.

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Current U.S. college graduates are part of the millennial generation, which is the largest and most well-educated generation of all time (PEW, 2014; Twenge, 2006) and are the future of the workforce. Moreover, recent college graduates have unique job searching and career expectations, which underlie the communication strategies used to search for jobs. While the process of job searching is inherently communicative in nature, job searching is an under studied context within communication research. Although previous research outlines the career related expectations of young job seekers, it fails to examine how recent college graduates search for jobs and communicatively respond to violated job searching expectations. This goal of this study was to determine the communicative strategies recent college graduates use to search for jobs and the role communication plays in responding to job searching expectation violations. Expectancy violations theory (Burgoon, 1978), a communicative framework, is applied in this study to understand how recent college graduates respond to violated job searching expectations. Six research questions guided this study to determine the job searching communication strategies, job searching expectations, career expectations, and expectancy violations that occurred throughout the job search. To answer these questions, I conducted interviews with 20 participants, twice over a three-month period, to qualitatively understand and analyze the job searching processes of recent college graduates. The findings from this study demonstrate that recent college graduates use a combination of traditional job searching strategies and online social networking strategies to find, research, and apply for jobs. While participants expected the job search to be difficult, they were surprised at the amount of intensity and effort job searching required. Interpreting the results through the lens of EVT helped note that the participants with the most realistic job searching and career related expectations had greater success job searching over a three-month period and at the time of the follow up interview, several participants had accepted full-time, post graduate jobs. Expectancy violations theory was essential in interpreting how participants network with interpersonal contacts by offering insight for why participants strategically communicate with contacts based upon their potential reward value. The reciprocation and compensation mechanisms of expectancy violations theory also provided an explanation as to why some participants increased their job searching activity in response to violated expectations and others did not. An especially interesting finding illustrates that participants preferred to receive bad news over no news at all, and even evaluated bad news as a positive expectancy violation because it reduced their uncertainty. Collectively, expectancy violations theory (Burgoon, 1978) and anticipatory socialization research (Dubinsky, Howell, Ingram, & Bellenger, 1986) highlight how recent college graduates form their job searching and career expectations. The findings from this study also contribute to existing job searching research by examining the job searching strategies and behaviors of recent college graduates to better understand how they job search and what they expect from their future employers. Lastly, the findings from this study provide several practical application suggestions for organizations to implement in order to recruit and retain the best young job seekers in light of their current expectations and job searching strategies.

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This study invest igated the demand trends in the employment of psychology graduates - with specific reference to research psychology - in South Africa from 1976 to 1998. A total of 5769 advertisements appearing in the Sunday Times and the Mail and Guardian were analysed. Results indicated that there has been an increase in demand for research skills coupled with a decrease in demand for technical psychosocial skills (psychodiagnosis, psychotherapy and psychometrics) . In addition, there has been an increase in demand for graduates with a background in research and community psychology to work in the public sector and in social welfare and development environments. These results are discussed in the light of other studies, which suggest an increased demand globally for research skills and service professionals. The implications of these results for the planning of psychology curricula suggest that career-oriented studies could concentrate on research skills and exposure to social welfare and development contexts, thereby ensuring that the demand for these skills is met. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2002.

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Douglas College Business Program students have graduated for the past twenty-two years. This study was undertaken to examine three specific aspects of the 'impact' that the Douglas College educational experience has had on these business graduates. Impact, as defined by Alfred (1982), is the sum total of outcomes, changes and benefits produced by a college. Through the use of Astin's model of the components of the process of higher education, specific outcomes related to employment, finances and further educational development were investigated. A survey was conducted of graduates from selected business programs from the years 1981 and 1986. Analyses were carried out to determine outcomes of having graduated from a Douglas College business program. It was found that the Douglas College business program graduates experienced positive outcomes related to employment, finances, and pursuit of further education. Graduates perceived that the benefits related to employment were more important than other benefits related to their educational experience.

Magistro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjama ekonomikos magistrantūros studijų absolventų preferencijos ir finansinės paskatos, renkantis darbo vietą, naudingumo aspektu. Tyrimo empirinę bazę sudaro 200 iš 689 Mykolo Romerio universiteto, Vilniaus universiteto, Kauno Technologijos universiteto bei Šiaulių universiteto 2007/2008 m.m. ir 2008/2009 m.m. ekonomikos magistrantūros studijų absolventai. Tyrimo objektas - Mykolo Romerio universiteto, Vilniaus universiteto, Kauno Technologijos universiteto bei Šiaulių universiteto ekonomikos magistrantūros studijų absolventų preferencijos ir finansinės paskatos, renkantis darbo vietą. Tyrimo tikslas - ištirti ekonomikos magistrantūros studijų absolventų preferencijas ir pagrindines finansines paskatas, darbo vietos pasirinkimo atžvilgiu, naudingumo funkcijų pagrindu. Atsižvelgiant į tyrimo tikslą ir iškeltus uždavinius darbe atlikta vartotojų preferencijų ir paskatų įtakos ištyrimo lygio analizė; išanalizuoti naudingumo funkcijų tipai; praktinėje darbo dalyje įvertintos Mykolo Romerio universiteto, Vilniaus Universiteto, Kauno Technologijos universiteto bei Šiaulių universiteto ekonomikos magistrantūros studijų absolventų, renkantis darbo vietą, naudingumo funkcijos; to pasekoje nustatytos respondentų preferencijos bei pagrindinės finansinės paskatos, teikiančios jiems didžiausią naudingumą, renkantis darbo vietą. Pagrindiniai tyrimo metodai: mokslinės literatūros analizė ir sisteminimas, anketinė apklausa, naudingumo funkcijų taikymas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The preferences and financial incentives based on utility aspect of graduates of master economics studies by choosing a work place is analyzed in the concluding paper of master degree. The empirical base of the research consisted of 200 from 689 graduates of Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius University, Kaunas Technology University and Šiauliai University. The object of the research was the preferences and financial stimulants of graduates of master economic studies of Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius University, Kaunas Technology University and Šiauliai University by choosing the work place. The main goal of the research was to investigate the preferences and financial stimulants of graduates of master economics studies by choosing them the work place by using the utility functions. The following findings are presented in the paper: the theoretical analyze of investigation level of preferences and incentives of customers; the analyze of the types of utility functions; weighted utility functions of the graduates of Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius University, Kaunas Technology University and Šiauliai University by choosing the work place; the preferences and major financial incentives of the respondents, which give them the maximum utility by choosing a work place. The main research methods: analyze and filing of nonfiction, survey of questionnaire, statistic analyze. The descriptive statistics was used to calculate statistical findings.