Measuring the Impact of Local Attractiveness on Student Career Orientation


Every year, the number of students graduating is very large while the labor demand of the market is always fluctuating, especially when the economic situation is not very positive. Not only that, in such a difficult situation, employers also set higher recruitment requirements to find good employees, one person can do many jobs, limiting the recruitment of many employees to reduce the pressure on salaries. Is this the cause of the "oversupply" of "virtual" human resources, leading to the current "crisis" of surplus? Therefore, it is necessary to have solutions and government policies to partly solve the common situation of students today.

5.5.4. Measuring the influence of local attractiveness factor on students' career orientation

The analysis results show that the local attractiveness factor has a relatively high influence on students' career orientation. Specifically, the average values ​​of the factors range from 3.57 to 4.04. In which, the factor with the greatest influence and the most decisive factor for students is the income factor V4 (Mean = 4.04). The above results also partly reflect the desire of students to have a job with a high income to have a more comfortable life. This is completely consistent with the analysis results in the statistical descriptive table on the reasons for choosing a workplace.


4.1

4

3.9

3.8

3.7

3.6

3.5

3.4

3.3

DP has many jobs Convenient in work

Higher income

4.04

3.73

3.57

Figure 5.9: Chart of the influence level of local attractiveness factor


The least influential factor in the group of local attractiveness factors is the locality has many job opportunities V1 (Mean = 3.57). When there are too many things in life, especially for new graduates, the problem of finding a job with a high income is the top priority. When you have met your minimum needs, then you can think about higher needs. The remaining factor with Mean value is: Working locally has many advantages in work V2 (Mean = 3.73).

5.5.5. Measuring the impact of company characteristics on

student career orientation

The results of measuring the influence of company characteristics on students' career orientation show that the factor Company size V19 (Mean = 3.67) is identified by students as having the most influence on them. Next is Company culture V21 (Mean = 3.65); and finally Company location V20 has the smallest mean value (Mean = 3.54).

It is necessary to have knowledge about the company to make the right choices. In each profession, we need to know at least the job requirements, career prospects, salary, etc. In addition, we must also learn about the career challenges, difficulties and advantages in the career that we may encounter during the working process.

As a student myself, I am preparing to step out of the micro-context of school to join a larger environment... I also realize that I have set certain career goals for myself. What will my company be like? Where will I work? What is my income? After how many years will I be promoted? etc. A series of questions will be the criteria for us to determine the right goals to strive for in the future.


3.67

3.65

3.54

COMPANY SCALE

COMPANY LOCATION

COMPANY CULTURE


Figure 5.10: Chart of the influence level of company characteristics

5.5.6. Measuring the influence of family factors on students' career orientation

The measurement results show that the family condition factor has a relatively low level of influence on students' career orientation. The average influence level is between 3.20 and 3.62. In which, the most influential factor is Family Economy V24 (Mean = 3.62). At a lower level of influence is the Family Origin factor V25 (Mean = 3.32) and the least influential is the Family Tradition factor V26 (Mean = 3.20). Each student has a different family situation, but the common point is that they are all strongly influenced by the family circumstance factor. They will tend to choose a place with a higher income to work.


3.7

3.6

3.5

3.4

3.3

3.2

3.1

3

2.9

Family economics

Family background

Family Tradition

3.62

3.32

3.2

Figure 5.11: Chart of the level of influence of family conditions


5.5.7. Measuring the impact of preferential policy factors on students' career orientation

The analysis results show that the preferential policy factor has a great influence on students' career orientation. The factor that has the greatest influence and is the most decisive factor for students is the promotion opportunity factor V23 (Mean

= 4.40). At the same time, the salary and benefits factor V22 also has a great influence on students (Mean = 4.28). The above results reflect the desire of students to have a job with high income and have the opportunity to be promoted at work. Therefore, these are factors that businesses need to pay attention to if they want to attract many talents to the company.


4.42

4.4

4.38

4.36

4.34

4.32

4.3

4.28

4.26

4.24

4.22

Salary and benefits policy

Promotion opportunities

4.4

4.28

Figure 5.12: Chart of the impact level of preferential policies

5.6. Analysis of factors affecting student employment

5.6.1. Testing the relationship between hometown and workplace (Table 6.1, Appendix 6, page 115)

To assess whether students differ between their hometown and workplace, we conduct a Chi-square test to find out this relationship.

Hypothesis Ho: Hometown has no relationship with workplace.


Chi-Square Test table, Asymp Sig. value = 0.008 < 0.05 shows that the test result is significant with 95% confidence level, which means we reject the hypothesis. Thereby, we can conclude that there is a relationship between hometown and income.


Student's hometown and workplace. It can be understood that hometown is the place where students were born and grew up, so students have a lot of affection for their hometown and want to contribute their efforts to build their hometown.

5.6.2. Test the relationship between the growing area and the workplace (Table 6.2, Appendix 6, page 116)

Being born in urban areas will tend to choose to work in big cities because there are many conditions for self-development. Whether or not there is a relationship above. We will conduct a Chi-square test.

Hypothesis Ho: There is no relationship between place of birth and place of work.

Asymp Sig. value = 0.371 > 0.05. With a significance level of 95%, this test is not statistically significant. We accept the null hypothesis, meaning that there is no relationship between the region of birth and the place of work. This shows that regardless of where students are born, urban or rural, the decision to find a place to work is the same among students.

5.6.3. Testing the relationship between gender and workplace (Table 6.3, Appendix 6, page 116)

Hypothesis Ho: There is no relationship between gender and workplace.


Through the test results, we have the value of Asymp Sig. = 0.015 < 0.05, so we reject the Ho hypothesis with a confidence level of 95%. Therefore, men and women tend to choose different workplaces.

This relationship can be explained as follows: Male students often choose to work in their hometown more than female students. And most female students choose to work in big cities such as Can Tho City and Ho Chi Minh City.

5.6.4. Testing the relationship between family income and type of company employed (Table 6.4, Appendix 6, page 117)

Hypothesis Ho: There is no relationship between household income and type of company employed.


The test results show that we should accept the Ho hypothesis with 95% confidence because the Asymp Sig. value = 0.878 > 0.05. That means that there is no relationship between household income and the type of company that students want to work for. There is no difference in choosing the type of company even if one student has better economic conditions than another.

5.6.5. Testing the relationship between university type and company type (Table 6.5, Appendix 6, page 117)

Hypothesis Ho: There is no relationship between type of university and type of company desired to work for.

The Chi-square test results indicate that we can accept the hypothesis with 95% confidence because the Asymp Sig. value = 0.334 > 0.05. This means that there is no real relationship between the type of university and the type of company that students want to work for. A good working environment and reasonable employee benefits will attract many students to work.

5.6.6. Testing the relationship between gender and desired job (Table 6.6, Appendix 6, page 118)

Hypothesis Ho: There is no difference in job type choice when students have different genders.

Asymp Sig. value = 0.065 > 0.05. Accept the null hypothesis with 95% confidence. From there, we can conclude that there is no difference between men and women in choosing the type of job they want. Their ability to choose a job is the same.

5.7. Measuring the factors necessary for students' job search process

5.7.1. Factor analysis

The theoretical part of exploratory factor analysis has been presented in the above section, so in this section the author only focuses on the analysis results.

The result of Bartlett's test ( Table 7.1, Appendix 7, page 118 ) has a Sig value.

= 0.000 < 0.05 and KMO coefficient (Kaiser Meyer Olkin) = 0.805 > 0.5 so the hypothesis is valid.


In this analysis, “Correlation between observed variables is 0” will be safely rejected with 95% confidence. This means that the observed variables in the population are related to each other and EFA analysis is appropriate.

The Total Variance Explanation results ( Table 7.2, Appendix 7, page 119 ) show that there are 3 factor groups greater than 1 , so there will be 3 factor groups drawn from 13 factors. The Cumulative % column shows that these 3 factor groups explain 57.9% of the variation in the data.

After rotating the factors, we remove the variable Qualities (X2) because the factor coefficient (Factor Loading) is less than 0.5. Based on the Factor Rotation Matrix table ( Table 7.4 , Appendix 7 , page 120 ), we divide the factors into the following 3 groups of factors :

O Factor 1: Knowledge and skills (S1)


STT

Variable name

Element

1

X3

Socio-economic knowledge

2

X5

Teamwork skills

3

X6

Presentation skills

4

X7

Communication and behavioral skills

5

X8

Learning skills – self-study

6

X9

Foreign language and computer skills

7

X10

Planning and management skills

8

X13

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0 Factor 2: Experience (S2)


STT

Variable name

Element

1

X11

Experience from part-time work

2

X12

Experience from group exercises – topics


Œ Factor 3: Capacity (S3)


STT

Variable name

Element

1

X1

Education

2

X4

Understanding the company


5.7.2. Scale evaluation

Table 5.12: Cronbach Alpha analysis results (Q18)



TT


Observation variable

Average of the scale

if variable


Variance of

ladder

measure

if variable type


Correlation with

total variable


Coefficient

Cronbach Alpha

if variable type


Coefficient

Cronbach's Alpha


Factor 1: Knowledge and skills

0.846

N = 8


1

Socio-economic knowledge


28.92


12.62


.523


.835



2

Teamwork skills


28.98


11.90


.591


.827


3

Presentation skills

29.01

11.73

.638

.821


4

Communication skills

28.64

11,12

.692

.817



5

Learning skills – self-study


29.04


12.10


.529


.835



6

Foreign language and computer skills


28.97


11.72


.639


.821



7

Planning and management skills


28.96


11.68


.596


.826


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