Mentoring immigrant job seekers: a socialization perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Purpose While mentoring is an important tool for employee development in organizations, its potential for integrating immigrants at the pre-employment stage remains underexplored. This paper examines the role of mentors in immigrants’ anticipatory socialization. Design/methodology/approach We followed an inductive, qualitative approach to investigate immigrants’ experiences of pre-employment mentoring facilitated by immigrant-serving organizations (ISOs). We drew on semi-structured interviews with immigrants and staff members of ISOs and archival data to understand the context and protégé experiences. Findings Mentors increased immigrants’ job search readiness by socializing them into the labor market, professions and organizations while supporting their emotional coping. Immigrant socialization emerges as a complex, multifaceted process requiring learning knowledge, skills and behaviors at multiple levels. Originality/value The study demonstrates the interrelatedness of mentoring and organizational socialization by elaborating on the process by which mentors support the anticipatory socialization of immigrant job seekers. Additionally, it unpacks the process of immigrant socialization by identifying specific knowledge, skills and behaviors that immigrants acquired through mentoring in order to meet societal, professional and organizational expectations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".