Self-efficacy, Self-Esteem, and Career Success: The Role of Perceived Employability

Abstract

Perceived employability is the workers’ perception of comfortably getting a recruitment opportunity. This paper investigates role breadth self-efficacy and organization based self-esteem as important antecedents of individuals’ perceived employability and tests its subsequent relationship with their career success. We collected primary data from 233 respondents working in banking, insurance, and health sectors in southern Punjab Pakistan. The results reveal that individuals’ role breadth self-efficacy and organization based self-esteem are positively related to their employability perception which further plays a mediating role in the relationship between self-efficacy and employee career success and self-esteem and employee career success. Important theoretical and practical implications and direction for future research coupled with limitations of the study are discussed.