TY - JOUR T1 - THE ROLE OF BRAND EQUITY AND BRAND AWARENESS IN ATTRACTING OF NEW GRADUATED ENGINEERS IN CONSTRUCTION SECTOR IN TURKEY TT - THE ROLE OF BRAND EQUITY AND BRAND AWARENESS IN ATTRACTING OF NEW GRADUATED ENGINEERS IN CONSTRUCTION SECTOR IN TURKEY AU - Oskaybaş, Kader AU - Gümrükçü, Asil Selman PY - 2014 DA - December DO - 10.17339/ejovoc.23344 JF - Ejovoc (Electronic Journal of Vocational Colleges) JO - Ejovoc PB - Kırklareli Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2146-7684 SP - 65 EP - 72 VL - 4 IS - 4 LA - en AB - One of the conditions for sustainability of a company is to strategically attract and retain young personnel in accordance with the market rate which have received required education, who believe in the goals and aspirations of the organization and are dedicated to ensuring the success of the organization To identify these young brains and recruit them to the organization for long terms is a very difficult task especially in today’s communication and fast consumer society. The aim of this study is to investigate whether brand awareness/brand equity influences the attraction of new graduated and university students in the Turkish construction sector. KW - Company preference KW - brand awareness KW - young graduated engineering faculties personnel N2 - One of the conditions for sustainability of a company is to strategically attract and retain young personnel in accordance with the market rate which have received required education, who believe in the goals and aspirations of the organization and are dedicated to ensuring the success of the organization To identify these young brains and recruit them to the organization for long terms is a very difficult task especially in today’s communication and fast consumer society. The aim of this study is to investigate whether brand awareness/brand equity influences the attraction of new graduated and university students in the Turkish construction sector. CR - Aaker, D.A. (1991). Managing Brand Equity. New York: The Free Press CR - Aaker, D.A. (1996). Building Strong Brands. New York: The Free Press. CR - Ambler, T. & Barrow, S. (1996). The employer brand. Journal of Brand Management, 4, 185-206. CR - Barber, A. E. (1998). Recruiting employees: Individual and organizational perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. CR - Boulding, W., Kalra A., Staelin R. and Zeithaml V. (1994) A dynamic process model of service quality: From expectations to behavior intentions, Journal of Marketing Research 30(February). CR - Brand Finance , http://brandirectory.com/league_tables/table/turkey-100-2013 CR - Cable, D.M. & Turban, D.B. (2001). Establishing the dimensions, sources and value of job seekers' employee knowledge during recruitment. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, . CR - Cobb-Walgren, C. J., Ruble C. A., & Donthu N. (1995) Brand equity, brand preference, and purchase intent. Journal of Advertising 24: 25-40. CR - Collins, J. C. & Stevens, K. C. (2002). The Relationship between early recruitment-related activities and the application decision of new labour-market entrants: a brand equity approach to recruitment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87 (6),. CR - Dowling, G.R.(2001),CreatingCorporateReputations±IdentityImage, and Performance, Oxford University Press, Oxford. CR - Esch, FranzRudolf (2008), Strategie und Technik der Markenführung (3. ed.). München: Vahlen CR - Gatewood ,R.D.,Gowan,M.A.,and Lautenshlager,G.J (1993) Corporate Image Recruitment Image, and Initial job choice decisions, Academy of Management Journal vol 36 no 2 CR - Keller, Kevin Lane . (1991). Conceptualizing, measuring, and managing customer-based brand equity. Journal of Marketing. CR - Keller, Kevin Lane, 2003. Building Customer-Based Brand Equity: A Blueprint For Creating Strong Brands. Marketing Science Institute Working Paper Series 2001, Report No. 01-07. CR - Rossiter & Percy, (1987), Advertising and promotion management McGrawHill New York, N.Y. CR - Sak Guven, Radikal , 15 January 2013 , http: //www.radikal.com.tr/yazarlar/guven_sak/ turkiyede _muhendisler _ne_ is _ yapiyor- 1116908 CR - Upshaw, L. B. 1995. Building brand identity: A strategy for success in a hostile marketplace. NewYork. UR - https://doi.org/10.17339/ejovoc.23344 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/62655 ER -