Does Entrepreneurial Experience Dim Future Job Prospects?
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1. Possible undesirable discrimination (no objective reason)
2. Self-employment might be a valid signal they would not “fit” in the organization
3. Entrepreneurs may lack skills that can only be gained in employment
It is good to note that this was done through online job boards, and only accounts for an invitation for an interview. They applied to 100 positions (2 CVs each) over two years, and had a 11% total positive response rate. They also note that 70% of the positions were advertised by recruiters.
While the sample size is low, online job boards have always had a low response rate. And, recruiters might feel they can't sell/profit-from a self-employed person as well as a traditional wage earner.
Also the sample size should be increased by a factor of 10.
You could say the same for just about any study. Obviously that would be a good thing. I don't know what the relevant p-values are, here, but my guess is that it's statistically significant. (I'm sure the full paper will include more statistical analysis of significance.)
I think more interesting would be to see how this varied across sector - these were all HR positions. It may be that the results would be quite different in, for example, programming positions.
In any case, it's an interesting question to be asking, and I'm glad people are doing research in it!