Social Support And Job-search Behavior In College Graduates:

As the number of university graduates increases year by year, along with the speed of economic growth is slowing, the difficulty of university students’employment is also increasing. In2015, the number of graduates will reach in7.49million, becoming the hardest job season. Employment problem of China’s college graduates has caused extensive concern of the society from all walks of life. As an important variable to predict college students’employment, job-search behavior is also becoming a research focus of scholars at home and abroad.There are many factors that can influence job-search behavior. Social support,as a supportive factor in people’s social network, has significant predict effect on college students’job-search behavior. The research of social support for job search behavior is of great significance, especially in university students’ increasingly difficult employment season nowadays. Based on the current situation, the present study tries to research on job-search behavior from the perspective of social support that college graduates get. Career decision-making self-efficacy is introduced to construct a mediation model. In addition, the study also creatively introduces proactive personality and social capital to verify their moderating effects.Based on a sample of321college graduates, we get the following conclusions:(1) Social support plays a significant positive prediction function on job search behavior.(2) Career decision-making self-efficacy has a significant positive prediction function on job search behavior.(3) Social support has a significant positive prediction function on Career decision-making self-efficacy.(4)The relation between social support and job-search behavior is partially intermediated by career decision-making self-efficacy.(5) The relationship between social support and career decision-making self-efficacy is negatively moderated by proactive personality. That is, high proactive personality weakens the association between social support and career decision-making self-efficacy.(6) Social capital is found to play a two-way moderating role on the relationship between career decision-making self-efficacy and job search behavior, career decision-making self-efficacy and job search behavior are negatively correlated when social capital is high while they are positively correlated when social capital is low.These results not only enrich the theory of job search behavior research, but also provide a good theoretical perspective for the subsequent research. Besides, the results also play practical guiding role for college students to search for a job.