대학생의 학업 외 취업 준비의 영향 요인과 취업 성과

This article examines the factors affecting college students’ extracurricular job preparation behavior, the effects of such behavior on first job achievements after graduation, and the factors affecting the transformation of college students’ extracurricular job preparation behavior into human capital or job market signaling. Results demonstrate that, first of all, parents’ higher socioeconomic positions tend to raise the possibility of college students’ extracurricular job preparation behavior. Expected lower positions in the labor market after graduation tend to raise the possibility of college students’ extracurricular job preparation behavior, and this tendency gets stronger as time goes by. It is difficult to say that college students’ extracurricular job preparation behavior strongly affects job achievements such as wages and employment in the big firm as a regular worker, although it has partial effects: Job experiences have no effects on first job achievements; as time goes by, the tendency that attending to a private institute positively affects employment in the big firm as a regular worker gets more evident, but the tendency that attending to a private institute positively affects wages gets weaker. The findings also reveal that the phenomenon that an expected lower position in the labor market after graduation, i.e., graduation from a college in the non-capital area, intensifies the transformation of college students’ extracurricular job preparation behavior into human capital or job market signaling occurs as time goes by.