The Empirical Research Of Relationship Among Career Calling, Job Satisfaction And Turnover Intention Of Graduates

With the implementation of the policy of enrollment expansion of collegesand universities, the number of college graduates is increasing year by year.The problem of college students’ employment concerns people’s livelihoodand has called a wide attention of society. In order to solve this problem, thegovernment, enterprises, colleges and graduates have taken activemeasures to promote the university students’ employment. Observingsurvey reports of employment of recent years, we can find that collegestudents’ employment have indeed improved. But because jobs do notconform well with their career expectations, or because graduates want tochange their careers or industries, many graduates take the initiative to leaveat the beginning of graduation, and the rate of college graduates’ turnover ishigh during their early career.Experts said that some graduates were lack of clear career goal andscientific career planning, and had chose a career blindly. It is not onlyconducive to university graduates’ career development, but also can causelosses to the enterprise. Thus to study of the employment of universitygraduates, and its psychological mechanism of turnover intention, are ofcertain theoretical significance and practical significance.As a new topic in the field of career and human resource, the domesticresearch on professional calling is still in its infancy. It mainly refers to acareer or work which the individual feels meaningful and which conforms toone’s inner value. Responding to the career calling can produce driving forceto one’s life or work, and bring about life satisfaction, job satisfaction, sense of meaning. With theoretical or empirical study, foreign scholars have provedthat the vocational calling was positively related to job satisfaction and wasnegatively related to the turnover intention. In addition, the scholars at homeand abroad, mostly agree that job satisfaction has a negative effect onturnover intention. Therefore, the role of job satisfaction playing betweenprofessional calling and turnover intention is also of value to discuss.Based on the predecessors’ research results, this paper builds a modelof professional calling, job satisfaction, and turnover intention, then putsforward the research hypotheses. In terms of empirical research, this articleselects college graduates as the research object, and collects theemployment data of graduates who have work for less than5years. Then thearticle analyzes the collected data using the SPSS18.0and AMOS21.0software, examines the influence of college graduates’ career callingimplementation and professional calling consistency on their job satisfactionand turnover intention, and explores the mediating effect of job satisfactionbetween the professional calling and turnover intention.The innovation of this article is that it associates the career calling whichis a new concept in the career field with the current problem of employment ofuniversity graduates, and it also puts occupational calling, job satisfaction andturnover intention into a theoretical framework for research. Professionalcalling includes two aspects of professional calling implementation andprofessional calling consistency. On job satisfaction, this article designs anew scale based on semi-structured interviews and predecessors’ studies,and divides it into three dimensions of existence, relation, and thedevelopment.Through the study, this paper finds that college graduates’ career callingimplementation and professional calling consistency are related to jobsatisfaction positively, and correlated with turnover intention negatively. Inview of the college graduates, this paper also proves the predecessors’ conclusion that job satisfaction is negatively related to turnover intention. Inaddition, this paper also finds that job satisfaction of university graduatesplays a partial intermediary role between professional calling implementationand turnover intention, and plays a completely intermediary role betweenprofessional calling consistency and turnover intention. According to theabove research conclusion, this paper argues that professional calling can bea predicting variable for graduates’ job satisfaction and turnover intention. Foruniversities, corporations and graduates, this all have good enlightenment.This paper also puts forward useful suggestions on graduate employment.