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Smith, Stephanie A. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2017
Expectancy violations theory, a communicative framework, is applied in this study to understand how recent college graduates form, evaluate, and respond to violated job-searching expectations. In-depth interviews of college seniors (N = 20) who were currently job searching helped answer the three research questions posed. Using a thematic…
Descriptors: Job Application, Job Applicants, Job Search Methods, College Graduates