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Personality Over Performance: Redefining Employability Through Recruitment in Early 2000s Istanbul

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  • Işıklı, Ebru

    (University College Dublin)

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This article examines why personality, rather than credentials, became a key performance indicator in Turkey’s labor market during the early 2000s. The study draws on interview data from recruitment specialists in Istanbul. It addresses a theoretical gap by challenging existing explanations, which typically argue that behavior is either a requirement for client-facing roles in the service sector or a signal of cultural capital to secure desirable jobs. The findings show that demand for specific behaviors has expanded beyond service sector, positioning behavior as a key performance indicator across the labor market for labor control.

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  • Işıklı, Ebru, 2024. "Personality Over Performance: Redefining Employability Through Recruitment in Early 2000s Istanbul," OSF Preprints afe52, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:afe52
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/afe52
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