Date of Award
4-27-2010
Degree Type
Closed Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication
First Advisor
David Cheshier - Committee Chair
Second Advisor
Carol Winkler - Committee Member
Third Advisor
Jennifer Jiles - Committee Member
Abstract
Potential employees use organization career webpages as a first source of information about potential jobs. A content analysis of the career webpages of twenty organizations that recruit from male-dominant occupations and twenty organizations that recruit for female-dominant occupations were examined for gender-specific textual markers and for textual markers for the characteristics of job expectations of comfort, reward and responsibility. Specific focus was made on college recruitment pages for employment into first post-college jobs. This study found that there is an underlying gender issue on organization’s college recruiting online presence. Organizations that have a recruitment strategy to hire women are challenged to appropriately appeal to women in their online recruitment messaging frameworks. Additionally, the rhetoric of job expectations is elusive and so is inadequate to foster the development of accurate expectations for a first post-college job.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1338120
Recommended Citation
Neiner, Catherine Franklin, "What Do They Expect? A Study of the Rhetoric of Job Expectations for First Post-College Jobs Found on Career Webpages of Gender-Dominant Organizations." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2010.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1338120