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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\, 2023Time:10:30 AM -12:00 PMLocation: Bronf
 man Building\, Room 301\n\nAbstract:\n\nOrganizational efforts to reduce r
 acial inequality in the workplace have proliferated in recent years\, ofte
 n targeting the demand side of the labor market. We focus on a supply-side
  intervention intended to benefit racial minority job seekers. Research in
  psychology\, education\, and behavioral medicine suggests that a self-aff
 irmation intervention—a writing exercise in which participants affirm the 
 importance of their core personal values—helps people maintain a positive 
 sense of self and facilitates more adaptive responses to the psychological
  threat of negative stereotypes. In a field experiment with incoming MBA s
 tudents at a North American university\, we measured the effect of a self-
 affirmation intervention on students’ job-search behaviors and internship 
 placement and\, for a subsample\, on their full-time job placement. Self-a
 ffirmed (versus unaffirmed) racial minority students attended fewer recrui
 tment events of lower-ranked employers\, and a greater proportion of the e
 vents they attended were hosted by highly ranked firms. Subsequently\, the
 y were more likely to receive offers from highly ranked companies. Similar
 ly\, in an experiment involving undergraduate job seekers\, racial minorit
 y participants who underwent self-affirmation focused more on highly ranke
 d employers and less on lower-ranked firms. Highlighting a potential mecha
 nism for this effect\, results show that self-affirmation boosted racial m
 inority job seekers’ confidence in their ability to get a good job. At the
  same time\, our findings caution that if a self-affirmation intervention 
 is not complemented by institutional career resources\, its impact on job 
 placement among applicants to top-tier employers may be negligible\, despi
 te 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:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/organizational-behavior-r
 esearch-seminar-heejung-jung-351693
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