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Kasler, Jonathan; Zysberg, Leehu; Harel, Nofar – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
Undergraduates approaching completion of their studies may embrace the prospect of entry into the world of work as a challenge or conversely, may view it with trepidation. This study explores three major personal resources that may be associated with how young undergraduates view their future employability: perceived hope, grit and emotional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Seniors, Student Attitudes
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Schatz-Oppenheimer, Orna – Intercultural Education, 2016
This study addresses intercultural differences among novice teachers (K-12) who graduated Arab academic teachers' colleges and lived in northern and central Israel before moving south to teach in Israel's Bedouin diaspora. The source material consists of stories they entered in a contest, describing the personal and professional aspects of their…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Minority Groups
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Sharone, Ofer – Social Forces, 2013
This article provides a new account of American job seekers' individualized understandings of their labor-market difficulties, and more broadly, of how structural conditions shape subjective responses. Unemployed white-collar workers in the U.S. tend to interpret their labor market difficulties as reflecting flaws in themselves, while Israelis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, White Collar Occupations, Social Support Groups, Interviews
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Kirschenbaum, Alan; Weisberg, Jacob – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1994
Interviews with 477 Israeli blue-collar workers showed that neither intent to leave nor actual job search significantly explained actual turnover, resulting from lack of available opportunities. "Passive" search seems to occur before intent emerges; active search may bring together perceived and actual opportunities and lead to turnover.…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Intention, Job Search Methods
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Kulik, Liat – Journal of Career Assessment, 2001
In a study of 225 Israeli young adults applying for their first job, women were more likely to reject jobs due to work conditions, family considerations, or masculine sex-typing. Men rejected jobs only because of feminine sex-typing. Women had greater nonfinancial commitment to work. Men were more stigmatized by unemployment. There were no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Applicants, Job Search Methods, Sex Differences
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Tziner, Aharon; Vered, Efrat; Ophir, Limor – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
This study examined the connection between personality traits (extraversion, conscientiousness, openness) and two strategies for job search: networking (family, friends, etc.) and general search (want ads, employment agencies), making use of Costa and McCrae's five-factor model of personality dimensions. The relations between the two strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, College Graduates, Unemployment