Specific job search self-efficacy beliefs and behaviors of unemployed ethnic minority women

• Main Authors: VAN HOYE, Greet, VAN HOOFT, Edwin A. J., STREMERSCH, Jolien, LIEVENS, Filip
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: self-efficacy; unemployment; ethnic minority women; job search behavior; job search; Human Resources Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6431; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7430/viewcontent/Specificjobsearchself_efficacybeliefsandbehaviors.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This two‐wave field study draws from social cognitive theory to investigate the specific job search self‐efficacy beliefs and behaviors of unemployed ethnic minority women in the Netherlands. We go beyond prior job search research that predominantly used white samples and conceptualized job search self‐efficacy and behavior as global, unidimensional constructs. We found that networking self‐efficacy and Internet self‐efficacy were the main predictors of ethnic minority women’s job search behaviors. Moreover, the more time they spent on contacting employment agencies and looking at job ads the more job offers they received. Finally, time spent on job ads was more positively related to job offers when job ad self‐efficacy was high and time spent on networking only predicted job offers when networking self‐efficacy was high.