Dongil (Marco) Jang

I am an Organizational Behavior and Human Resources researcher studying careers and networks. Specifically, I investigate how workers signal their human and social capital and examine how these signaling behaviors influence evaluations and career outcomes in workplaces and the labor market. My dissertation, “Two Essays on Workers’ Online Professional Profiles,” explores how workers signal their professional expertise and how they represent their coworkers’ expertise in the context of online professional profiles (e.g., LinkedIn). Specifically, I investigate how workers signal their identities across different occupational categories (Essay 1) and how others describe them in referrals that reflect their workplace interactions (Essay 2). To explore these questions, I employ a wide array of computational methods (e.g., big data analytics, network analysis, and machine learning) using diverse types of data such as surveys, experiments, field studies, archival records, and administrative datasets.

• Research Topics: Careers, Networks, Visibility, Social Evaluations, Signaling, Screening

I am interested in teaching Strategic Human Resource Management, with a focus on specific topics related to my research, such as Digital Transformation and Social Capital in the workplace. I am also enthusiastic about teaching Social Network Theory and Analysis, offering both theoretical insights and practical skill development by incorporating tools such as R and Python for network analysis.

Outside of academia, I enjoy hosting friends at my home and cooking Korean dishes for my guests. I am also a cat lover and a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson films.