Entering the Labor Market: Networks and Networking Behavior in the School-to-Work Transition

IF 1.9 2区 教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Vocations and Learning Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI:10.1007/s12186-024-09343-4
Dries De Weerdt, Ayla De Schepper, Eva Kyndt, David Gijbels
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This study examines the social networks and networking behavior of students graduating from higher education and transitioning to the labor market. To obtain an in-depth understanding of graduating students’ social networks, a mixed method social network study was conducted. Network data from 12 graduating students were collected. The results showed that students seek labor market-oriented contacts with individuals in the personal, education, and work contexts. Students received more practical and job-specific support from weak ties (e.g., colleagues at internships) and more social and emotional support from strong ties (e.g., parents and fellow students). The development of a labor market-oriented network occurred spontaneously through social media channels or when students proactively connected with others at educational institutions or job events. However, not all students felt confident developing a network. In these cases, the lack of awareness of relevant network actors, and interpersonal and intrapersonal characteristics play a critical role.

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进入劳动力市场:从学校到工作过渡时期的网络和网络行为
本研究探讨了即将从高等教育机构毕业并进入劳动力市场的学生的社交网络和网络行为。为了深入了解即将毕业学生的社交网络,本研究采用混合方法进行了社交网络研究。研究收集了 12 名即将毕业学生的网络数据。研究结果表明,学生在个人、教育和工作环境中寻求以劳动力市场为导向的人际交往。学生从弱关系(如实习同事)中获得了更多实际和工作方面的支持,而从强关系(如父母和同学)中获得了更多社会和情感方面的支持。以劳动力市场为导向的网络的发展是通过社交媒体渠道或学生在教育机构或就业活动中主动与他人建立联系而自发形成的。然而,并非所有学生都有信心发展网络。在这些情况下,缺乏对相关网络参与者的认识以及人际和人内特征起到了关键作用。
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Vocations and Learning
Vocations and Learning EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education is an international peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for strongly conceptual and carefully prepared manuscripts that inform the broad field of vocational learning. The scope of the journal and its focus on vocational learning is inclusive of vocational and professional learning albeit through the very diverse range of settings (e.g. vocational colleges, schools, universities, workplaces, domestic environments, voluntary bodies etc) in which it occurs. It stands to be the only truly international journal that focuses on vocational learning, as encompassing the activities that comprise vocational education and professional education in their diverse forms internationally. Vocations and Learning aims to: enhance the contribution of research and scholarship to vocational and professional education policy; support the development of conceptualisation(s) of vocational and professional learning and education; improve the quality of practice within vocational and professional learning and education; and enhance and support the standing of these fields as a sectors with its own significant purposes, pedagogies and curriculums. Vocations and Learning: Studies in Vocational and Professional Education encourages the submission of high-quality contributions from a broad range of disciplines, as well as those that cross disciplinary boundaries, in addressing issues associated with vocational and professional education. It is intended that contributions will represent those from major disciplines (i.e. psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, labour studies, industrial relations and economics) as cross overs within and hybrids with and amongst these disciplinary traditions. These contributions can comprise papers that provide either empirically-based accounts, discussions of theoretical perspectives or reviews of literature about vocational learning. In addition, books, reports and policies associated with vocational learning will also be reviewed. Topics addressed through contributions within the proposed journal might include, but will not be restricted to: curriculum and pedagogy practices for vocational learning the role and nature of knowledge in vocational learning the nature of vocations, professional practice and learning the relationship between context and learning in vocational settings the nature and role of vocational education the nature of goals for vocational learning different manifestations and comparative analyses of vocational education, their purposes and formation organisational pedagogics transformations in vocational learning and education over time and space analyses of instructional practice within vocational learning and education analyses of vocational learning and education policies international comparisons of vocational learning and education critical appraisal of contemporary policies, practices and initiatives studies of teaching and learning in vocational education approaches to vocational learning in non-work settings and in unpaid work learning throughout working lives relationships between vocational learning and economic imperatives and conceptions and national and trans-national agencies and their policies.
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