Job Seeker's Perceived Employability and Hiring Manager's Decision-Making in the Hospitality Industry

The relationship between job applicants 'perceived employability' and employers' actual hiring decisions is an important issue for both job applicants and hiring organizations, as well as higher education. Actual 'employability' is a set of skills and qualifications suitable for organizational job roles when hiring managers make decisions. However, most research heavily focuses on job applicants: the relationship among perceived employability, proactive career behavior, and career motivation. Little research has involved actual 'employability' from the perspective of hiring managers. The study examines both perceived employability and the employability of hospitality industry hiring managers. The hospitality industry's turnover rate is much higher than the overall industry average. We investigate the relationship between hospitality job applicants' career motivation and perceived employability mediated through proactive career behavior.