School-to-work transition: Mentor career support and student career planning,job search intentions,and self-defeating job search behavior |
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Authors: | Robert W Renn Robert Steinbauer Robert Taylor Daniel Detwiler |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Management, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152-3120, USA;2. Department of Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship & Ethics, Goodman School of Business, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Ave., St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada |
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Abstract: | We hypothesized and tested a model where mentor career support predicts college student career planning, job search intentions, and self-defeating job search behavior via student career self-efficacy. Using survey responses collected at two points in time from college students near graduation who were mentored by working business professionals for 8 months in a formal hybrid university-sponsored mentoring program, results showed that mentor career support was positively related to student career planning and job search intentions and negatively related to student self-defeating job search behavior. In addition, results indicated that student career self-efficacy fully mediated the relations between mentor career support and the outcomes. The findings have important implications for future mentoring and job search research. They also provide practical guidance for improving college students' career planning and job searches. |
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Keywords: | School-to-work transition Mentoring Job search Self-defeating behavior |
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