Employment Seeking Process Research Articles

Anxiety During Employment-Seeking for Autistic Adults.

Autistic adults are more likely to be unemployed compared to neurotypical adults and those with disability. To address these poorer employment outcomes, it is important to consider factors that may be impacting on autistic adults' employment outcomes. Anxiety is a common co-occurring condition for autistic adults; however, there is little research on how anxiety affects or influences autistic people's experience across the employment-seeking process. The aim of this study was to explore whether anxiety is perceived to affect autistic adults' ability to engage in employment-seeking tasks. Online, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 autistic adults (22-52 years) who were actively seeking employment or had sought employment in the last 18 months. Interview transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Three themes were generated from the data analysis. Theme 1, Finding the "sweet spot", identified some level of anxiety-but not too much-was helpful in performing the employment-seeking tasks and this "spot" could vary depending on the person and the task. Theme 2, Anxiety affects the ability to perform and function, encapsulates the autistic person's experience when anxiety is too high. The third theme, The "vicious cycle" of anxiety and employment-seeking behaviours, explores participants' ongoing experience of anxiety on their employment-seeking behaviours. The findings suggest that autistic job candidates would benefit from tailored accommodations and adjustments offered throughout the recruitment process, to reduce anxiety and improve employment-seeking outcomes for autistic candidates.

Analyzing the Socio-Economic Impacts of the US Federal Minimum Wage

With United States president Joe Biden announcing plans to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, conversations surrounding minimum wage laws have resurfaced yet again as businesses and policymakers look to get ahead of its effects on the economy. This paper will analyze the economic and social impacts of the US federal minimum wage by drawing on economic models and empirical data from sources such as the Congressional Budget Office and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Various studies have shown that raising the minimum wage would result in large-scale unemployment effects, severely hurting the economy in the midst of the COVID-19 recession. Firstly, minimum wage policies fail to combat poverty and instead induce cost-push inflation, reducing real wages. Secondly, many contract and self-employed workers are not covered by minimum wage regulations at all. Thirdly, by directing those at the lowest end of the wage spectrum into the ranks of the unemployed, minimum wage laws have an unfairly disproportionate effect on the impoverished, thereby exacerbating income inequality. Finally, from a social perspective, minimum wage policies violate workers’ freedom of contract by interfering with their employment seeking process, and the existence of minimum wages can weaken workers’ negotiation power in wage bargaining. This weakness is especially evident when considering that there are many other alternatives in safeguarding workers’ rights such as workplace safety laws and trade unions. In light of these negative impacts, this essay warns policymakers to not be too optimistic towards the minimum wage and encourages governments to seek other alternatives to protect workers’ rights and secure higher wages. By analyzing the potential drawbacks of the minimum wage, this paper addresses a gap in the existing literature, which mainly focuses on the benefits of the policy. Therefore, not only will this paper contribute to existing work in the field of labor economics, it also provides a more holistic, well-rounded perspective of the federal minimum wage.

Employment information needs and information behaviour of North Korean refugees

Introduction. The employment-related information needs and behaviour of North Korean refugees during their settlement in South Korea were analysed, and provisions that public libraries should consider when providing employment-related information to North Korean refugees were suggested. Method. Semi-structured group interviews were conducted with twenty-one North Korean refugees who had job-seeking experience or who wanted to be employed. Also, five public and NGO workers that aid the employment seeking process for employment support services to North Korean refugees provided field data on the services provided and characteristics of North Korean refugees’ information behaviour. Analysis. The results were examined using content analysis according to the factors of Dervin’s sense-making theory—situation, gap, and use. We used NVIVO 12 to extract codes from interview parts according to the factors. Results. The employment situation of North Korean refugees in South Korea can largely be categorised into two types: employment-related and education-related. The frequent subjects of employment information needs were job posting, vocational education, and career. Participants suffered from a lack of intellectual, psychological, and social accessibility. North Korean refugees were most likely to get information from interpersonal sources, the Internet, and public institutions. Conclusion. We developed a model of North Korean refugees’ information behaviour based on the findings and provided guidance for public libraries on serving job-seeking North Korean refugees.

The Difference of Social Network Sites Explained with the Employment Seeking Process

This paper describes the difference between business social network sites and private social network sites under consideration of the employment seeking process. The objective of the paper is to explain the different use of social network sites for different purpose. The use of social network sites can be explained with social capital theory which has been tested with the collected data. This paper test if the social capital theory can be expanded to explain social network sites under consideration of the employment seeking process for Xing as business SNS and Facebook as private SNS. The purpose of this article: According the survey to analyze the difference of social network sites explained with the employment seeking process. The research methods: analysis of scientific literature, interpretation, quantitative research, data analysis using SPSS program. The research method has been an online survey with 271 young SNS members who are participants for the research project. The sample has a gender bias which has to be under consideration by the interpretation of the results.

Improve Your Social Network and Have the Advantage in the Employment Seeking Process

Human resource management uses social networks to identify new employees. This research investigates if people use social networks to identify employment opportunities and how they improve their networks to get easier and quicker access to information and resources. Researchers worldwide devote their attention to different aspects of identification of new employees via social networks. The authors of the paper have done empirical research based on an online survey with 298 respondents, and the data obtained from the survey has been analysed using various statistical tools. The number of suitable candidates for employment is decreasing and companies need knowledge about the employment seeking process to have an effective and efficient recruiting strategy. This paper studies the information channel on employment possibilities, i.e. social network, and how individuals develop and improve their networks for the employment seeking process. Moreover, the authors analyse how people use social networks in the employment seeking process compared with other channels on possible employment opportunities.

Work Matters: Formerly Incarcerated Men’s Resiliency in Reentry

The purpose of this paper is to examine how and why formerly incarcerated men remain resilient during the employment-seeking process, despite the array of barriers and adversities they encounter du...

Cumulative Incidence Function in Studies on the Duration of the Unemployment Exit Process

Abstract When we analyse the employment seeking process, an event that ends the observation of a given individual is their employment. The remaining observations are considered to be censored: the observations concluded before the end of the study or the cases of deregistering for other causes (e.g. old-age pension, taking up residence in a foreign country, starting further education). The act of taking up income-generating work can take various forms: taking up a job, setting up a business or taking advantage of subsidised job programmes. Jobseekers are often deregistered from poviat labour offices because they refuse to take up an offered job or fail to report to the office in due time. All the above events are forms of competing risk. The purpose of this paper is to use the cumulative incidence function to assess the probability of the unemployment exit with regard to different types of the competing risk. When competing-risk events occur, a solution sometimes is used where the remaining endpoint events are considered censored observations. Such a solution leads to an overestimation of probability. The results implicate that the beneficiaries’ will to find employment was not a principal reason for a registering decision. The study is based on the individual data of jobseekers registered in the Poviat Labour Office in Szczecin.

Your social network profile reveals you

PurposeThis study aims to evaluate the fears of individuals on their profiles’ sharing in social network sites (SNSs), regarding its advantages and disadvantages. The researched issues are related with the employment seeking process. The concern of this study is the deviation observation between the fears acquired by the business and private social media members.Design/methodology/approachThis study included an online survey with 236 respondents and calculated indicators of central tendency or location parameter, correlation coefficients and performed analysis of variance.FindingsThe result indicated and revealed the hidden danger and opportunities among social network members’ profile. This result addressed the need to consider the issue of user’s fears in reengineering the practical use of SNSs by organisations.Research limitations/implicationsInteresting for further research would be to transfer this research from the employment seeking process in other research fields to generalise the results more accurately.Originality/valueThe contribution to the research field is to compare different SNSs and to explain the reasons to use SNS profiles to support organisations by their decisions for a valuable strategy. This study provides an insight in use and behaviour of SNS members that support researchers to understand the behaviour of SNS members regarding their profile under consideration of the employment seeking process.

The use of Social Network Sites for the Employment Seeking Process

Social networks are becoming more and more important in employment seeking process. The importance of social networks in this respect has been researched also in academic research worldwide and discussed on scientific conferences. The aim of the paper is to analyse the experience of the use of social network sites (SNS) with empirical results of 28 interviews with employment seeking individuals to identify the behaviour of employment seeking individuals and to identify further information regarding the employment seeking process in SNSs. In addition is an objective of the paper to falsify the dimensions of Sander / Teh. That the framework of the dimensions can be used to investigate SNSs and to describe the social capital theory of SNSs (Sander & Teh 2014a). The importance of real social networks are presented in many papers but the perspective of the employment seeking individual in SNSs needs further and deeper research.

Employment Concerns of People with Epilepsy and the Question of Disclosure: Report of a Survey of the Epilepsy Foundation

This article presents the results of a survey of the Epilepsy Foundation affiliates in the United States and Puerto Rico, regarding the employment-related questions and concerns of people with epilepsy. The survey also explored how Epilepsy Foundation affiliates advise people with epilepsy about disclosing epilepsy status in the employment-seeking process. Some of the major employment-related questions and concerns reported by the affiliates included identifying resources to help in finding a job, questions about disclosure of epilepsy status in job applications, questions about job-related discrimination or Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) violations, questions about the ADA, and questions about how to deal with co-workers or supervisors. Implications and design limitations are discussed.

Job Hunting: Sharpening your competitive edge

The author argues that a job seeker who tailors each resume and application letter to capture the interest of a particular employer is far more likely to elicit a response than a job seeker who simply sends copies of a standard resume and letter to every employer. In a highly competitive job market, he advocates careful orchestration of the whole employment-seeking process from resume preparation to personal presentation during an interview.