Or, it indicates
the probability of finding a job with the set of skills that has been acquired.
The mean perceived
probability of finding a job (if one's current job were lost) increased slightly, maintaining its gradual upward trend over the past two years.
Not exact matches
The author
of this study, Joni Hersch,
finds that after controlling for other factors that determine wages, women employed in
jobs with an average
probability of being sexual harassed are paid a compensating differential
of 25 cents per hour relative to women employed in
jobs with no risk
of sexual harassment.
«The
probability for French postdocs in North America to have
found a permanent
job within six years
of getting their doctorate is about 64 %,» says the report, combining the statistics for all scientific disciplines.
Faculty members protected by tenure kept their
jobs, but mathematicians who had not yet attained it
found themselves facing sharply heightened competition, which produced an «unprecedented 12 percent unemployment rate for new American mathematics PhDs» and «a dramatic decrease in the
probability of obtaining a position in research universities,» the article says.
I have
found that the standard, Gaussian, normal, bell shaped
probability distribution does an excellent
job of estimating what happens within the central 80 % to 90 % region.
Understanding how recruiters
find candidates can help you, as a
job seeker, speed up the process and
probability of finding an opportunity you love!
Labor market expectations were mixed: Expectations about
finding a
job and earnings growth both improved, but the perceived
probability of losing a
job and expectations about the unemployment rate both increased slightly.