Unemployed individuals: Motives, job-search competencies, and job-search constraints as predictors of job seeking and reemployment

This study investigated 3 broad classes of individual-differences variables (job-search motives. competencies, and constraints) as predictors of job-s earch intensity among unemployed job seekers. Also assessed was the relatio nship between job-search intensity and reemployment success in a longitudin al context. Results show significant relationships between the predictors e mployment commitment, financial hardship, job-search self-efficacy, and mot ivation control and the outcome job-search intensity. Support was not found for a relationship between perceived job-search constraints and job-search intensity. Motivation control was highlighted as the only lagged predictor of job-search intensity over time for those who were continuously unemploy ed. Job-search intensity predicted Time 2 reemployment status for the sampl e as a whole, but not reemployment quality for those who found jobs over th e study's duration.