Occupational Mobility Driving Paths of College Graduates with Specialties in the Energy Industry —Com-B model-based configuration analysis

The career mobility of graduates from universities characteristic of the energy industry directly affects the supply of talents in the industry, the development of regional industry and economy, and relates to the benign interaction between higher education and the labor market. The study constructed a driver model of high occupational mobility effects of graduates based on the Competence, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behavior model (COM-B model), and explored the group effects of eight antecedent variables on occupational mobility under three dimensions of schooling, employment opportunities, and individual motivation using a group approach. The study found that the high occupational mobility effect is the result of multiple antecedent conditions acting in concert; the economic level of the workplace has strong explanatory power for the occupational mobility effect; the groupings that promote high occupational mobility effects include geographic advantage-development opportunity duality-driven, geographic salary attraction, and family expectation-influenced, suggesting that the occupational mobility of graduates from industry-characterized colleges and universities is inextricably linked to regional economic conditions, industry distribution, and personal motivation; accordingly, three driving paths are proposed: opportunity-driven, geographically-driven and energy-driven. The study clarifies the multiple choice paths of occupational mobility from a group perspective, suggests career mobility for graduates of industry characteristic universities, and expands the use of the COM-B model.