Building a Career

The Effect of Initial Job Experiences and Related Work
Attitudes on Later Employment

Joseph A. Raelin

Examines the effects of initial job experiences and attitudes of young people in shaping their lifetime employment experience.

Table of Contents
  1. Introduction
    • Policy Problem
    • Core Model
    • Full Model
  2. Review of the Youth Career Literature
    • Sociological and Economic Precursors
    • The Psychological Focus on Job Satisfaction
    • Consequences of Early Career Attitudes and Experiences
    • Work To Be Done
  3. An Approach to Analysis of Early Youth Careers
    • Sample
    • Variables
    • Analysis
  4. Results
    • Overall Sample
    • Overall Sample - Trimmed
    • Subgroup Analysis - Sex
    • Subgroup Analysis - Race
    • Subgroup Analysis - Education
    • Subgroup Analysis - Socioeconomic Status
    • Subgroup Analysis - Disadvantaged
    • Subgroup Analysis - Age
    • Subgroup Analysis - Urbanization
    • Subgroup Analysis - Job Level
    • Subgroup Analysis - Tenure
    • Full Model Analysis
    • Full Model Analysis - Trimmed
  5. Summary and Recommendations

178 pp. 1980
$5 paper ISBN 0-911558-73-X / ISBN-13 978-0-911558-73-9.


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