Arbeitspapier
Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities
We investigated the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: degree class and extra-curricular activities. These characteristics were randomly assigned to 2,800 fictitious job applications that were sent to real vacancies in Belgium. Academic performance and extra-curricular engagement both enhanced job interview rates by about 7%. The effect of a higher degree class was driven by female (versus male) candidates and candidates with a master's (versus a bachelor's) degree. We did not find evidence for these CV characteristics to be substitutes or to reinforce each other's effect.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11971
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Demand
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Field Experiments
- Subject
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degree class
extra-curricular activities
hiring
field experiment
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Baert, Stijn
Verhaest, Dieter
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Baert, Stijn
- Verhaest, Dieter
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2018
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