Job search is an important activity that people engage in during various phases across the
life span (eg, school-to-work transition, job loss, job change, career transition). Based on our …

This article surveys 100 years of research on career management and retirement, with a
primary focus on work published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Research on career …

We examine the idea that an individual's employability subsumes a host of person-centered
constructs needed to deal effectively with the career-related changes occurring in today's …

The present study investigated the relationship of traits from the 5‐factor model of
personality (often termed the “Big Five”) and general mental ability with career success …

This article provides a meta-analysis of the relationship between the five-factor model of
personality and 3 central theories of performance motivation (goal-setting, expectancy, and …

A motivational, self-regulatory conceptualization of job search was used to organize and
investigate the relationships between personality, expectancies, self, social, motive, and …

This study looks at the effects of education level on job performance in 2 ways. First, it
provides a meta‐analysis on the relationships between education level and 9 dimensions of …

Despite widespread popular concern about what it means to be over 40 and unemployed,
little attention has been paid in the literature to clarifying the role of age within the job …

Past job-search research has focused on how hard unemployed people search for a job, but
we still know little about the strategies that people use during their search and how we can …

Career transitions are becoming increasingly prevalent across the lifespan, and research on
the topic has proliferated in recent years. However, the literature is fragmented across …