Work hard or play hard? Degree class, student leadership and employment opportunities
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- Stijn Baert (UGent) and Dieter Verhaest (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This study investigates the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: degree class and extra‐curricular activities. These characteristics were randomly assigned to 2,800 fictitious job applications that were sent to real vacancies in Belgium. Academic performance and extra‐curricular engagement enhance job interview rates by 7.0% (CI 95% [0.3%, 13.7%]) and 6.5% (CI 95% [−0.5%, 13.4%]), respectively. We did not find evidence for these CV characteristics to reinforce or reduce their effect.
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- degree class, extra-curricular activities, hiring, field experiment
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8694903
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- Baert, Stijn, and Dieter Verhaest. “Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities.” OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, vol. 83, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1024–47, doi:10.1111/obes.12424.
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- Baert, S., & Verhaest, D. (2021). Work hard or play hard? Degree class, student leadership and employment opportunities. OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 83(4), 1024–1047. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12424
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- Baert, Stijn, and Dieter Verhaest. 2021. “Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities.” OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS 83 (4): 1024–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12424.
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- Baert, Stijn, and Dieter Verhaest. 2021. “Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities.” OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS 83 (4): 1024–1047. doi:10.1111/obes.12424.
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- 1.Baert S, Verhaest D. Work hard or play hard? Degree class, student leadership and employment opportunities. OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS. 2021;83(4):1024–47.
- IEEE
- [1]S. Baert and D. Verhaest, “Work hard or play hard? Degree class, student leadership and employment opportunities,” OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 1024–1047, 2021.
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abstract = {{This study investigates the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: degree class and extra‐curricular activities. These characteristics were randomly assigned to 2,800 fictitious job applications that were sent to real vacancies in Belgium. Academic performance and extra‐curricular engagement enhance job interview rates by 7.0% (CI 95% [0.3%, 13.7%]) and 6.5% (CI 95% [−0.5%, 13.4%]), respectively. We did not find evidence for these CV characteristics to reinforce or reduce their effect.}},
author = {{Baert, Stijn and Verhaest, Dieter}},
issn = {{0305-9049}},
journal = {{OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS}},
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language = {{eng}},
number = {{4}},
pages = {{1024--1047}},
title = {{Work hard or play hard? Degree class, student leadership and employment opportunities}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12424}},
volume = {{83}},
year = {{2021}},
}
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