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Manuel Souto-Otero; Phillip Brown – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
How the labour market operates in an increasingly digital context has remained under-researched. The article explains why the digital labour market is in urgent need of study, as digitalisation transforms how labour markets are structured and shape the competition for jobs. Digital tools give job seekers new ways of describing themselves and give…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Technological Advancement, Education Work Relationship, Career Information Systems
Loo, Bryce; Luo, Ning; Ye, Ziyi – World Education Services, 2017
In order to provide institutions with more insight into student experiences and perspectives on their careers and the preparation they received on campus--and to promote discussions about how such students' might be better served--the research team at World Education Services (WES) conducted a survey of both current international students and…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Students, College Students
June, Audrey Williams – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
The author reports on the academic job market that is showing signs of turning around after a multiyear slump. Job-outlook data released by professional associations in recent months show an uptick in the number of jobs available in several fields, including history, the humanities and foreign languages, sociology, geography, and political…
Descriptors: Tenure, Job Search Methods, Labor Market, Professional Associations
Cassuto, Leonard – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Discussion of nonfaculty careers for graduate students so easily disintegrates into dueling anecdotes. The author describes a story about someone who had to drop his Ph.D. from his resume in order to get a job at all. Stories cluster around both of those poles in the comments section whenever the author has written about nonprofessorial career…
Descriptors: Careers, Graduate Students, Career Exploration, Career Choice
National Association of Colleges and Employers (NJ1), 2010
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) conducts an annual survey of college students to identify: (1) how students approach the job market as they near graduation; (2) how responsive the market is to the graduating students; (3) the resources students use to seek their first full-time job after getting their degree; and (4) the…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Labor Market, Student Surveys, College Graduates
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Stainback, Kevin – Social Forces, 2008
Scholarly literature and the media often tout "networking" as an effective route for obtaining quality employment. Some scholars, however, have cautioned that racially segregated social networks may produce racially segregated workgroups and differential opportunity structures over time. Drawing from theoretical perspectives pertaining to social…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Social Networks, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns