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Alexandra M. Dunn; Samira Fallah – Journal of Management Education, 2024
Searching for jobs is a stressful process for students. When faced with unknowns of the future, many students avoid proactively planning their job search. This article describes an exercise, rooted in scenario planning, which is a tool widely used during an organization's strategy development process. To help students prepare for the job search…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Resilience (Psychology), Stress Variables, Vignettes
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Katie Knapp; David Drewery – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2025
Work-integrated learning (WIL) students are exposed to a range of stressors that can impact wellbeing. However, there is a paucity of research exploring stress prior to the work experience, such as in the job search and application process. To address this issue, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 undergraduate first-year…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, College Freshmen, Stress Variables, Job Applicants
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Ng, Wei-Hua; Menzies, Jane; Zutshi, Ambika – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2019
Few studies have addressed the university-to-work transition experience of international postgraduate students. This paper contributed to the literature as it proposed a three-stage university-to-work transition framework including stages of finishing a degree, looking for a job, and working in a job. A qualitative research design with in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Education Work Relationship
Utterback, Annie; Iguina-Colón, Gloriela; Wharton-Fields, Donna – MDRC, 2020
The COVID-19 health pandemic created an extremely stressful context for staff in workforce development programs and the participants with whom they work. "MyGoals for Employment Success" is an employment coaching program based in Baltimore, Maryland, and Houston, Texas, that combines a highly structured coaching model that emphasizes…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Crisis Management, Coaching (Performance), Career Counseling
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Hu, Yueqin; Gan, Yiqun – Psychological Record, 2011
Using a sample of Chinese college students (n = 216), the present study showed that future-oriented coping negatively correlated with perceived pressure and positively correlated with successful job hunting. The relationship between proactive coping and preventive coping was also explored. Structural equation modeling suggested that a sequence…
Descriptors: College Students, Structural Equation Models, Job Search Methods, Coping
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Hoare, P. Nancey; Machin, M. Anthony – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2009
This paper presents a summary of some of the implications gleaned from a research project which investigated the psychological influences on the experience of unemployment. Drawing from deprivation theory and the stress and coping literature, the research project explored coping resources, cognitive appraisals, coping behaviours, mental health and…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Intervention, Research Projects, Coping