Participants and Procedure
This study aims to explore job choice making process with a focus on new job seekers, thus college graduates with a degree in hospitality and tourism management (HTM) was selected. College students are an important recruitment pool to companies (Breaugh, 1992) because they have developed their skills related to their future careers through a systematic process and curriculum designed by universities and colleges. They have also accumulated experience through internships and part-time works throughout their collegiate life. Since college students possess a different background than their predecessors, it is critical to understand how they make their job choice decisions (Ng & Burke, 2006; Solnet & Hood, 2008; Richardson, …show more content…
Therefore, “every bit of performance-predicting information on college recruits, particularly that which is convenient and cost-effective to obtain, should prove worth the effort to collect and evaluate” (Rubin et al., 2002, p. 450).
This research employed a self-administered paper-based questionnaire to collect data that was used to investigate the research questions. Since the main purpose of this study is to capture job seekers’ fit perception adjustments through different recruitment stages suggested by Barber (1998), data were collected at three time points to assess individuals’ job choice decisions, namely submitting job application, maintaining applicant status, and …show more content…
Respondents were chosen from a university located in the Southeastern region of the United States, which offers a 4-year Bachelor’s degree in hospitality and tourism management. We contacted faculty members at this institution and they agreed to participate in this study. Questionnaires were distributed to students during class periods. Prior to this, students were informed that their participation was voluntary, and all information collected would remain anonymous and only be used for academic research purposes. Additionally, a cover letter was attached to the survey which explained the research objective and instructions for completing the survey. Because this study attempted to assess fit perceptions that would influence their job choice decisions over a period time, students were asked to fill out their school e-mail address as the identifier at the end of each survey to track their participation. Once we confirmed the participation of respondents at the end of the data collection, the identifier was removed so no one can use the answer to back trace participants’
This study aims to explore job choice making process with a focus on new job seekers, thus college graduates with a degree in hospitality and tourism management (HTM) was selected. College students are an important recruitment pool to companies (Breaugh, 1992) because they have developed their skills related to their future careers through a systematic process and curriculum designed by universities and colleges. They have also accumulated experience through internships and part-time works throughout their collegiate life. Since college students possess a different background than their predecessors, it is critical to understand how they make their job choice decisions (Ng & Burke, 2006; Solnet & Hood, 2008; Richardson, …show more content…
Therefore, “every bit of performance-predicting information on college recruits, particularly that which is convenient and cost-effective to obtain, should prove worth the effort to collect and evaluate” (Rubin et al., 2002, p. 450).
This research employed a self-administered paper-based questionnaire to collect data that was used to investigate the research questions. Since the main purpose of this study is to capture job seekers’ fit perception adjustments through different recruitment stages suggested by Barber (1998), data were collected at three time points to assess individuals’ job choice decisions, namely submitting job application, maintaining applicant status, and …show more content…
Respondents were chosen from a university located in the Southeastern region of the United States, which offers a 4-year Bachelor’s degree in hospitality and tourism management. We contacted faculty members at this institution and they agreed to participate in this study. Questionnaires were distributed to students during class periods. Prior to this, students were informed that their participation was voluntary, and all information collected would remain anonymous and only be used for academic research purposes. Additionally, a cover letter was attached to the survey which explained the research objective and instructions for completing the survey. Because this study attempted to assess fit perceptions that would influence their job choice decisions over a period time, students were asked to fill out their school e-mail address as the identifier at the end of each survey to track their participation. Once we confirmed the participation of respondents at the end of the data collection, the identifier was removed so no one can use the answer to back trace participants’