| Summary: | 碩士 === 高苑科技大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 100 === Due to the shortage of labour power in tourism and leisure industry, the service quality is also decreased. This makes the tourists lack of incentive to revisit the places, and which also decreases the income and influence companies’ operation. On the other hand, the employers do not familiar with their personality characteristics. They spend too much time for job seeking. This also decreases their working performance and increases the leaving rate. Finally the recruitment and training costs of the firm are raised.
This research aims to investigate the students’ personality characteristics and background variables, and to find the correlation and diverseness of tourism related job seeking behaviour. This research also would like to understand the students’ willingness to stay in the relevant industry and to address the specific recommendations, in order to fill the gap of labour power shortage in the tourism and leisure industry.
This study uses survey analysis. In the way of purposive sam, this study gathers the sample from the students of three tourism related departments in Technology Universities in Chiayi and Tainan: Department of Recreation Management, Department of Leisure Management and Department of Hospitality. The total sample size is 600, and the final effective sample size is 502. The respondent rate is 83.6%. This study uses SPSS for data management. The statistical analyses are as follows: factor analysis, one-way ANOVA,T-test and OLS linear regression. After the analyses, this study gets the following results:
1. The students from Tourism related departments have positive personality characteristics of rigorousness and affinity.
2. The proportion of willingness of seeking a tourism related job is around 55.5%, this implies that the students’ willingness of getting a relevant job is not increasing.
3. The gender, the number of qualification certificates and the part-time working experience are significantly related to the students’ willingness of getting a relevant job.
4. Affinity rigor extraversion emotional sensitivity and Openness to experience the students’ willingness of getting a relevant job is positively related to the students’ five different personality characteristics.
Key words: Background Variables, Personality, Employment Preference
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