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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
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Preston, Courtney; Goff, Peter Trabert; Finch, Maida A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
We use a comprehensive database of teacher application data from Wisconsin to examine the job preferences of teachers with no experience. We examine both whether these preferences vary by teacher education credentials and over their time on the labor market and if credentials and job search behaviors predict success. Overall, we find that teachers…
Descriptors: Preferences, Beginning Teachers, Job Application, Job Search Methods