Public sector professionals are often negatively portrayed with ascriptions such as “ineffective” and “lazy.” Such negative connotations might disadvantage public sector organizations when trying to attract applicants, as it can reflect negatively on individuals' social identities. With this pre‐registered experimental study, we examine stereotypes of public and private sector workers with and without a signal of specific professions present across both the public and private sector. We examine how this influences attraction in the initial phases of a job search before tangible job attributes become visible. Our study among 290 job seeking citizens in the United Kingdom provides evidence for a generic public sector worker bias, but the bias diminishes when the specific profession is known. Furthermore, we find that job seekers are less attracted to public employment and that this relationship is influenced by a negativity bias against public sector workers. We discuss implications of the study.

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第一印象：职业刻板印象分析及其对行业吸引力的影响


公共部门专业人员经常被负面地描述为“无效”和“懒惰”。这种负面含义可能会使公共部门组织在试图吸引申请人时处于不利地位，因为它会对个人的社会身份产生负面影响。通过这项预先注册的实验研究，我们研究了公共和私营部门工人的刻板印象，无论是否有公共和私营部门存在特定职业的信号。我们研究了这在求职的初始阶段如何影响吸引力，然后才显现出有形的工作属性。我们对 290 名英国求职公民的研究为普遍的公共部门工人偏见提供了证据，但当了解特定职业时，这种偏见就会减少。此外，我们发现求职者对公共就业的吸引力较小，并且这种关系受到对公共部门工作人员的消极偏见的影响。我们讨论了这项研究的意义。