The importance of horizontal-fit of university student jobs for future job quality
| Autor: | Ana Hernández, Vicente González-Romá, Pascale M. Le Blanc, Beatrice van der Heijden, Jesús Yeves, Juan Pablo Gamboa |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Human Performance Management |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Job quality media_common.quotation_subject Employability Bachelor Job market Moderated mediation 0502 economics and business ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Quality (business) Time devoted to a student job media_common Medical education Horizontal fit while studying (fit between university degree subject and student job) Self-perceived employability ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION 05 social sciences 050301 education Work experience Psychology 0503 education Institute for Management Research 050203 business & management Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Graduation |
| Zdroj: | Career Development International, 24, 3, pp. 239-256 Career Development International, 24, 239-256 Career Development International, 24(3), 239-256. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1362-0436 |
| Popis: | Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the antecedents of the quality of graduates’ jobs when they enter the job market after university graduation. Design/methodology/approach Survey data collected from 173 Spanish bachelor and master’s degree university graduates at two time points (two months before and six months after graduation, approximately) were analyzed by means of path analysis. Findings A moderated mediation model was tested, where the relationship between the horizontal fit (HF) between the university degree subject and the student’s job and the quality of the graduate’s job after graduation is mediated by self-perceived employability and moderated by the time devoted to a student job. Results showed that the relationship between HF and job quality was partially mediated by self-perceived employability. However, contrary to the proposed hypothesis, this relationship did not depend on the time devoted to a student job. Originality/value This study contributes to improving the understanding about how and why university students’ work experience is related to the quality of their jobs as fresh graduates. |
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