Over the past years, the school-to-work transition has become more volatile and complex, making it more important for graduates to take charge of their careers and to engage in self-regulatory activities. A central factor in successfully navigating this transition is job search. Integrating the social cognitive model of career self-management with recent theorizing on job search quality, we posit that a high-quality job search process (i.e., goal establishment, planning, goal striving, and reflection) will lead to key transition outcomes (i.e., job attainment and perceived fit) for graduates. We incorporate pre-, during, and post school-to-work transition variables to provide new insights about proximal antecedents, processes, and outcomes of this transition. In our integrated model, we propose that job search quality is determined by graduates' job search self-efficacy, outcome expectations (i.e., perceived labor market demand), personality (i.e., conscientiousness), and context (i.e., social support). In turn, job search quality is expected to predict job attainment and perceived fit. The hypothesized model is tested in a sample of 255 Flemish graduates using a three-waved design. Results show that job search self-efficacy and conscientiousness related positively to most job search quality dimensions, and indirectly to job attainment. Goal establishment and goal striving positively predicted job attainment, whereas goal establishment was a significant predictor of perceived fit of the obtained job. These results can help graduates to conduct a higher-quality job search, and help career counselors to design more effective training programs.

过去几年，从学校到工作的过渡变得更加动荡和复杂，这使得毕业生对自己的职业负责和参与自律活动变得更加重要。成功驾驭这种转变的一个核心因素是求职。将职业自我管理的社会认知模型与最近关于求职质量的理论相结合，我们假设高质量的求职过程（即目标确立、计划、目标奋斗和反思）将导致关键的转变结果（即，工作成就和感知适合度）为毕业生。我们结合了从学校到工作的过渡前、中和后的变量，以提供有关这种过渡的最近前因、过程和结果的新见解。在我们的集成模型中，我们认为求职质量取决于毕业生的求职自我效能感、结果预期（即感知劳动力市场需求）、个性（即尽责性）和背景（即社会支持）。反过来，求职质量有望预测工作成就和感知适合度。假设模型使用三波设计在 255 名佛兰德毕业生样本中进行测试。结果表明，求职自我效能感和尽责性与大多数求职质量维度呈正相关，与工作获得程度呈间接相关。目标建立和目标努力积极预测工作成就，而目标建立是所获得工作的感知适合度的重要预测因素。这些结果可以帮助毕业生进行更高质量的求职，