| dc.description.abstract | Nowadays, corporate recruiters value job candidates’ experience in work and extracurricular activities instead of mere educational background. However, in Taiwan, studies on extracurricular activities lack of empirical investigation, which makes it harder for us to comprehend the actual impact of extracurricular activities on workers’ career success. Thus, it is the purpose of this thesis to investigate the actual impact of college students’ extracurricular activities on their career success. This study surveyed 358 college-educated employees who have less-than-ten-year working experience and work in hi-tech companies. With t-test, MANOVA analysis, and regression analysis of these questionnaires, the findings of this study are as follows:
1. In terms of job related skills, extracurricular activities provides higher level of preparation than coursework in creative thinking, problem solving, job interviewing, leadership and teamwork, relationship building, oral presentation, and proposal writing. In addition, respondents with leadership experience in extracurricular activities gained significantly in leadership ability and communication skills during their participation in extracurricular activities. Besides, the more the respondents’ involvement in extracurricular activities, the greater the job related skills they learned. In general, respondents whose majors are science learn more about communication and job related skills from their involvement in extracurricular activities as compared with those whose majors are in social science; however, graduates from nationally renowned universities acknowledged the greater value of school coursework in preparing them for the needed academic skills.
2. In terms of career success, there were no significant differences between extracurricular activities participants and non-extracurricular activities participants on extrinsic career success, while respondents with extracurricular activities experience reported higher levels of intrinsic career success, especially those who involved more deeply in extracurricular activities. Finally, graduates with science majors reported receiving greater intrinsic career success than graduates with social science majors when involving more deeply in extracurricular activities. | en_US |