This Research-to-Practice Full Paper investigates
engineering students’ career goals and intentions regarding
organizational settings, and how their goals and intentions relate
to their background, learning and contextual measures. Moreover,
despite vocational choice and turnover having been heavily studied
in the literature, few studies have examined how students’ career
goals relate to change in their organizational settings over time and
how these perceptions then influence their turnover intentions. To
fill in this research gap, this paper explores how organizational
setting and respondent aspiration to be in that setting relate to
turnover intentions.
The paper is based on the nationally-representative, longitudinal
Engineering Majors Survey and has a sample size of 350
respondents, characterized as employed and recently graduated
(<2y) from an undergraduate engineering program. Respondents
are categorized in three different alignment groups (Aligned,
Fluid, Unaligned) according to their career goal achievement.
Respondents who are currently employed in the type of
organization, they had imagined being employed at a year earlier
are called Aligned. Respondents who are actually employed in the
type of organization (e.g., small versus large firm) to which they
stated “Might or might not” be employed a year earlier are
classified as Fluid. Finally, respondents, who work in the
organizational setting, which they did not want to work in one year
prior, are called Unaligned. The paper also determines
respondents turnover intentions (Stay, Flexible, Go) related to
organizational settings, such as small companies or medium and
large companies. Alignment and turnover groups were then
compared with each other in relation to background, learning, and
contextual measures. Background measures are gender,
underrepresented minority status, and first generation to college
status. Learning measures are internship experience, and
contextual measures are job satisfaction and grade point average.
The findings suggest that most of these recent graduates are
Aligned and want to Stay in their organizational setting.
Employees in small companies are relatively less Aligned and are
more likely to Go and leave the organizational setting than are
employees in large companies. Respondents who have done an
internship are more often Aligned and less likely want to Go and
leave their organizational setting than those who have not done an
internship. These results suggest that many respondents decide
before graduation on an organizational setting and continue to
desire the same organizational setting after being employed for
some time. Future longitudinal research should compare organizational
settings-based turnover intentions with turnover intentions related
to specific companies, -as a complement to much of the in literature
on turnover intentions mostly refers to leaving specific
organizations.
Keywords: career decisions, labor turnover intentions,
organizational setting, engineering graduates, alignment
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NEMO: Next Career Move Prediction with Contextual Embedding
With increased globalization and labor mobility, human resource reallocation across firms, industries and regions has become the new norm in labor markets. The emergence of massive digital traces of such mobility offers a unique opportunity to understand labor mobility at an unprecedented scale and granularity. While most studies on labor mobility have largely focused on characterizing macro-level (e.g., region or company) or micro-level (e.g., employee) patterns, the problem of how to accurately predict an employee's next career move (which company with what job title) receives little attention. This paper presents the first study of large-scale experiments for predicting next career moves. We focus on two sources of predictive signals: profile context matching and career path mining and propose a contextual LSTM model, NEMO, to simultaneously capture signals from both sources by jointly learning latent representations for different types of entities (e.g., employees, skills, companies) that appear in different sources. In particular, NEMO generates the contextual representation by aggregating all the profile information and explores the dependencies in the career paths through the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. Extensive experiments on a large, real-world LinkedIn dataset show that NEMO significantly outperforms strong baselines and also reveal interesting insights in micro-level labor mobility.
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