Relationships among career exploration, job search intensity, and job search effectiveness in graduating college students

This paper examines the linkages among the constructs of career exploration , job search intensity, and job search effectiveness. Viewing job search in tensity as a part of the job choice process, job search intensity is hypoth esized to mediate the relationships of self and environmental exploration w ith a job seeker's initial compensation and job satisfaction Using a sample of 219 graduating college students, results suggested that job search inte nsity mediated the relationship of environmental exploration with initial c ompensation. The results supported the concept of readiness and action-base d stages in the job choice process. Support may be needed to guide job seek ers through both stages. (C) 2000 Academic Press.