Conspicuous Employment

Benjamin Berghaus is a freelancer at the intersection of research, education, and management practice. Since 2018, Benjamin works as an entrepreneur, author, lecturer, student mentor, scientific and management consultant. Together with his colleagues, he founded career-orientation-initiatives like the Swiss Student Value Survey and the Career Profiler. He teaches regularly at the MBA programme of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and builds on international teaching experiences with leading schools like European School of Management and Technology Berlin, Germany, EM Lyon Business School, France, Hanken SSE, Finland, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands and the University of Liechtenstein as well as his formal university lecturing qualification at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Before his academic career, he worked in the German automotive industry as a marketing manager.

• Introduction.- Theory on Status: A Cross-Discipline Literature Review.- Prestigious Employer Preference: Scale Development and Evaluation.- Prestige Preference and Person-Organisation Fit.- Prestige Preference and (Over-)Confidence.- Discussion.- Appendix.