The New Indicators of Labor Market in Information Society - The Impact of Global Mobility on Job Seeking

• Main Authors: Yen-Ching Wu, 吳燕青
• Other Authors: Shu-Fen Tseng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2j4wkn

碩士 === 元智大學 === 資訊社會學碩士學位學程 === 102 === The advances in information technology prompt global economy and change the structure of employment and occupation toward a service-oriented labor market. The importance of emotional workforce has been recognized in service-oriented labor market. The globalization of labor market creates many opportunities for the flow of talent but also brings global competition among workers. In addition to traditional skills such as education and different job-related certificates that suggested in theory of human capital, this study tries to answer what new capacities and skills are needed for job searching among those who just graduated from colleges in the development of information society. In particular, this study explores a gradually recognized job character in human resource literature, namely global mobility, to examine its influences on job seeking and finding better jobs. The main hypothesis is to test whether those who had higher extent of global mobility do show better job position and higher salary. Global mobility is constructed in four elements, there are foreign language skill, experiences of global learning, cross-cultural learning and team collaboration. A total of 102 students graduated from colleges of Informatics and Management in the year of 2011-2012 at Yuan Ze University are surveyed in this study. The results suggest that there is no significant effect of students’ courses taken and performance (GPA) on getting their first jobs and levels of salary. In terms of impacts of global mobility, the results show that those who had foreign language skill tend to have better salary in their first jobs. In addition, those who had cross-cultural leaning capacity do get a better first job and higher salary than the others. In general, male graduates get a better job and higher salary than their counterparts. Graduates from college of Informatics tend to get more professional jobs than those who graduated from college of Management. In all, this study finds the importance of global mobility on first job seeking and concludes that global mobility adds as a new element of human capital is crucial in facing the changes of labor market in information society.