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Positive Feedback and Self-Reflection: Features to Support Self-efficacy among Underrepresented Job Seekers

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An 8-month randomized field experiment was conducted to evaluate two tools-Review-Me and Interview4-designed to address underrepresented job seekers' key employment needs and found ways to integrate these two features into future tools for, and techniques to increase study retention among, underrepresentedJob seekers.
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Technologies play a key role in finding employment in today's job market. However, the majority of those who are unemployed, e.g., individuals who have limited education or who are racial and ethnic minorities, are not well supported by existing digital employment tools. Therefore, we conducted an 8-month randomized field experiment to evaluate two tools-Review-Me and Interview4-designed to address these job seekers' key employment needs. We used the Theory of Planned Behavior to examine the tools' effects on three factors influencing job seekers' job search intention: job search self-efficacy, subjective norms, and job search attitudes. Our interview data suggested that the tools positively affected all factors, but our survey results were mixed. Interview results suggest that these trends were caused by positive feedback and self-reflection. We contribute ways to integrate these two features into future tools for, and techniques to increase study retention among, underrepresented job seekers.

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More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter

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Implications for Supporting Marginalized Job Seekers: Lessons from Employment Centers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how employment center staff work with marginalized job seekers and moderate factors to securing decent work, and found that career advisors worked directly with job seekers to connect them with external resources, provide encouragement, strategize long-term goals, and mitigate feelings of stigma.
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