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D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence; Hamid, Jamaliah Abdul – International Education Studies, 2014
Work environment is facing numerous challenges and this entails organizations to better understand the phenomenon of employability orientation. Thus, the primary aim of this study is to determine the level of employability orientation among university students and its influencing factors. This is a quantitative study whereby a total of 711…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Employment Potential, College Students, Statistical Analysis
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Heimler, Ronald; Rosenberg, Stuart; Morote, Elsa-Sofia – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use the authors' prior findings concerning basic employability skills in order to determine which skills best predict career advancement potential. Design/methodology/approach: Utilizing survey responses of human resource managers, the employability skills showing the largest relationships to career…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Structural Equation Models, Job Performance, Numeracy
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Otto, Kathleen; Dette-Hagenmeyer, Dorothea E.; Dalbert, Claudia – Journal of Career Development, 2010
It has become a commonplace for people to move from one occupation to another during their career. The authors propose that work-related attitudes and person-related characteristics should be considered when examining the willingness to change occupations (WCOs). Consistent with our hypotheses, we found that high levels of work satisfaction,…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, Work Ethic, Labor Force, Unemployment
Kuchinke, K. Peter; Kang, Hye-Seung; Oh, Seok-Young – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2008
The study contributes to the work values literature as well as to the knowledge base of meaning of working in Asian economies. It represents the results of an empirical study of Korean mid-level employees in diverse industries, investigating the effects of different understandings of work and non-work dimensions on job satisfaction, career…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Employee Attitudes
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Williamson, Jeanine M.; Pemberton, Anne E.; Lounsbury, John W. – Library Quarterly, 2005
This study collected data on personality characteristics, job satisfaction, and career satisfaction from more than 1,300 information professionals. Respondents included academic reference librarians, archivists, catalogers, distance education librarians, public librarians, records managers, school media specialists, special librarians, systems…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Job Satisfaction, Libraries, Media Specialists