The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of interpersonal service work
experience in school on the early labor market adaptation of junior college graduates. For
the young people who graduated from high school and entered college immediately by
using the GOMS data for three years from 2012 to 2014, the relations between the
characteristics of their personal characteristics, school characteristics, and early labor market
adaptation and the probability of experiencing the difficulty of adjusting for the first job
were examined through the binary logistic regression analysis. The results of this study are
as follows: First, the economic environment of students who have interpersonal service
work experience in school is worse than others. The experience of interpersonal service
work in school has a only partially positive effect on the early labor market performance
in terms of transition period, job retention. Second, the interpersonal service work
experience has a positive effect on some separation reasons, but it has a negative effect on
external factors. Third, it is more likely that the person who experienced interpersonal
service job is more likely to experience the difficulty of first job adjustment than the
person who does not have job experience during school attendance. On the other hand,
variables such as graduation scores, scholarship beneficiaries, and the first job transition
period, which are frequently used as indicators for predicting the employment possibility of
the college graduates, does not show statistically significant results. Based on the results of
this analysis, the policy implications and challenges are presented.