On The Relationship Between The Persistence Of The First Job And Objective Career Success

In general,Objective Career Success such as salary and position in organization attributes to several factors.Particularly,the factors regarding human capital they are education,work experience and seniority of work.This study adopts Judge and his research associates' framework(1995).Previous stduies have indicated that salary has positive relation with seniority and work experience.This study not only confirms those findings but also discovers that the persistence of the first job has a positive relation with salary.That is to say,those who had longer first job persistence are currently gaining higher salary.This paper is composed of two parts:the first is mainly questionnaire-based quantitative analysis.The survey samples were drawn from the alumni of a Taiwan university. Intervial-regression analysis was performed and found that the longer persistence of the first job,relatively higher his/her current salary while other human capital and organizational factors were included.To further understand the reason and impact of the first job persistence, we proceed to the second part of qualitative research.This Partâ…¡qualitative study is mainly conducted with in-depth interviews and grounded theory analysis,which is the most scientific representation of qualitative research method.The motives and conclusions of this study are as follows:1.To explore the importance and impact of the first job persistence.The first job is the most critical beginning in the human capital market and will affect future career development. 2.To understand the reasons in idcucing longer persistence in the first job.There are few studies focusing on the first job thus far.Through questionnaire investigation and quantitative analysis,we found that the longer the first job persistence,the higher the present salary.Therefore,the second study was set to figure out what factors would induce longer first job persistence.3.From organizational perspective,through the analysis of first job we gain deeper understanding of human resource management.4.This is the major concern of this paper and all the above can serve as a reference for selecting first job upon entering one's career.