Author(s)

Wei Wang, Liangtie Dai

School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Job search clarity refers to a job seeker’s clarity about his job objective or about his desired job in terms of content or form. Job search clarity has an important influence on career development of both contemporary college students and the employed. Particularly, along with intensifying of supply and demand contradictions on the current labor market, and deepening of personnel reform, an increasing number of college students and the employed are obsessed with their career problems. This makes research and guidance of job search clarity an imperativeness. By reviewing previous literatures and combining the development status in China, this research further summarizes the concept, measurement methods, influencing factors and results of job search clarity, and provides some measures to improve college students’ job search clarity. Besides, the author looks into prospects of the research issue, hoping that research into job search clarity can go deeper and be further expanded.

Job Search Clarity, Job-Seeking College Students, Career Development

Wang, W. and Dai, L. (2017) A Review of Researches on Job Search Clarity. Psychology, 8, 955-962. doi: 10.4236/psych.2017.87062.