College-based career interventions : raising IT employability and persistence in early careers of IT professionals
The aims of the current study are twofold. First, we examine the relationship between specific modalities of career interventions and initial employment in IT. Specifically, we take a skills and social learning perspective to distinguish between direct and vicarious experiences of career interventio...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1546842023-05-19T07:31:16Z College-based career interventions : raising IT employability and persistence in early careers of IT professionals Setor, Tenace Kwaku Joseph, Damien Nanyang Business School Business::Information technology Business::Information technology::Management of information systems Cooperative Education Internship IT Employability Career Persistence The aims of the current study are twofold. First, we examine the relationship between specific modalities of career interventions and initial employment in IT. Specifically, we take a skills and social learning perspective to distinguish between direct and vicarious experiences of career interventions and relate these experiences to IT employability and career persistence. We test our predictions using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997. Our findings suggest that cooperative education, internship and mentorship experiences increase the likelihood of initial IT employment. In addition, we find that internship and mentorship experiences engender persistence in IT careers. We discuss the implications our findings have on research and practice. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version This study was partially funded by the Ministry of Education (Singapore) under Tier 1 Grant Number [2017-T1-001-255-0 (RG63/17)]. 2022-01-03T06:01:43Z 2022-01-03T06:01:43Z 2021 Journal Article Setor, T. K. & Joseph, D. (2021). College-based career interventions : raising IT employability and persistence in early careers of IT professionals. Journal of Information Systems Education, 32(4), 262-273. 1055-3096 https://jise.org/Volume32/n4/JISE2021v32n4pp262-273.html https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154684 4 32 262 273 en 2017-T1-001-255-0 (RG63/17) Journal of Information Systems Education © 2021 Information Systems and Computing Academic Professionals (ISCAP). All rights reserved. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this journal for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that the copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial use. application/pdf |
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The aims of the current study are twofold. First, we examine the relationship between specific modalities of career interventions and initial employment in IT. Specifically, we take a skills and social learning perspective to distinguish between direct and vicarious experiences of career interventions and relate these experiences to IT employability and career persistence. We test our predictions using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997. Our findings suggest that cooperative education, internship and mentorship experiences increase the likelihood of initial IT employment. In addition, we find that internship and mentorship experiences engender persistence in IT careers. We discuss the implications our findings have on research and practice. |
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