Job Search: Career Changes Among Community College Administrators

Job search activities employed by two-year college administrators in searches for their current positions. Based on Granovetter’s (1974) findings from an important study of the job matching process, they paid specific attention to the importance of personal contacts versus formal sources of information and methods of becoming a candidate, structural factors that influence contact networks, and whether job-search behavior differed by type of administrative position. The study also examined the consistency of job-search behaviork activeness of search, and belief in effectiveness of job search process. It discusses relative openness and fairness of the job-matching process.