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DESCRIPTION:HeeJung (HJ) Jung\, Imperial College London\n\nTitle of talk: S
 elf-Affirmation as a Job-Search Intervention for Racial Minority Job Seeke
 rs\n\nDate: Tuesday October10\, 2023\n	Time:10:30 AM -12:00 PM\n	Location: B
 ronfman Building\, Room 301\n\nAbstract:\n\nOrganizational efforts to redu
 ce racial inequality in the workplace have proliferated in recent years\, 
 often targeting the demand side of the labor market. We focus on a supply-
 side intervention intended to benefit racial minority job seekers. Researc
 h in psychology\, education\, and behavioral medicine suggests that a self
 -affirmation intervention—a writing exercise in which participants affirm 
 the importance of their core personal values—helps people maintain a posit
 ive sense of self and facilitates more adaptive responses to the psycholog
 ical threat of negative stereotypes. In a field experiment with incoming M
 BA students at a North American university\, we measured the effect of a s
 elf-affirmation intervention on students’ job-search behaviors and interns
 hip placement and\, for a subsample\, on their full-time job placement. Se
 lf-affirmed (versus unaffirmed) racial minority students attended fewer re
 cruitment events of lower-ranked employers\, and a greater proportion of t
 he events they attended were hosted by highly ranked firms. Subsequently\,
  they were more likely to receive offers from highly ranked companies. Sim
 ilarly\, in an experiment involving undergraduate job seekers\, racial min
 ority participants who underwent self-affirmation focused more on highly r
 anked employers and less on lower-ranked firms. Highlighting a potential m
 echanism for this effect\, results show that self-affirmation boosted raci
 al minority job seekers’ confidence in their ability to get a good job. At
  the same time\, our findings caution that if a self-affirmation intervent
 ion is not complemented by institutional career resources\, its impact on 
 job placement among applicants to top-tier employers may be negligible\, d
 espite encouraging job seekers to aim high.\n
DTSTART:20231010T143000Z
DTEND:20231010T160000Z
LOCATION:Room 301\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001
  rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Organizational Behavior Research Seminar: HeeJung Jung
URL:/desautels/channels/event/organizational-behavior-
 research-seminar-heejung-jung-351693
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