TY - JOUR
T1 - Navigating the Black Hole
T2 - Explicating Layers of Job Search Context and Adaptational Responses
AU - Wanberg, Connie
AU - Basbug, Gokce
AU - Van Hooft, Edwin A.J.
AU - Samtani, Archana
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - Via a qualitative study, we introduce and elucidate 5 layers of context-related job search demands (omnibus, organizational, social, task, and personal) that are encountered by both employed and unemployed job seekers. We develop a process model to portray the mechanisms (managing mood and motivation, feedback/help seeking, and self-reflection/learning) through which these context-related demands are related to several important job search outcomes. We provide new insight into employed job seekers, showing that they report the job search as full of difficulties, obstacles, and challenges, and that some of these demands parallel those that unemployed job seekers face.
AB - Via a qualitative study, we introduce and elucidate 5 layers of context-related job search demands (omnibus, organizational, social, task, and personal) that are encountered by both employed and unemployed job seekers. We develop a process model to portray the mechanisms (managing mood and motivation, feedback/help seeking, and self-reflection/learning) through which these context-related demands are related to several important job search outcomes. We provide new insight into employed job seekers, showing that they report the job search as full of difficulties, obstacles, and challenges, and that some of these demands parallel those that unemployed job seekers face.
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U2 - 10.1111/peps.12005
DO - 10.1111/peps.12005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84868335735
SN - 0031-5826
VL - 65
SP - 887
EP - 926
JO - Personnel Psychology
JF - Personnel Psychology
IS - 4
ER -
