Abstract:
Job preference of job seekers is an important human management aspect to
many parties such as job offers, policy makers and job seekers. However,
many academic programmes offered by the higher educational institutes are
not orientated to the real needs of job seekers. It leads to mislead the job
seekers. In this context, this study discusses the job seekers’ predilection of
job. In Sri Lanka, there is only one research done in this study. Therefore,
there is theoretical and empirical knowledge gap between these areas. Then,
the problems of the study are: what is the preference for job of management
undergraduates and what are the factors they consider to select a job? Using
257 management undergraduates of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura,
primary data were gathered. The sampling method was simple random sample
and questionnaire was designed with structured in nature. Using SPSS version
16, univariate analysis were done to analysis the primary data. Major findings
of the study are: there is a demand for the private sector jobs as well as public
sector jobs from the management undergraduates and the reasons of selecting
a job from both sectors almost similar in these two groups. The
recommendation of the study is that considering the factors concerned by the
job seekers, specially the management undergraduates, public and private
sector companies should enhance the qualities of jobs and offer the jobs.
