the mediating role of person-job fit in the effect of corporate image perception of the ministry of youth and sports on intention to apply for a job

The research was conducted to determine the role of person-job fit in the effect of the corporate image of the ministry of youth and sports on the job application intention of students who will graduate from sports sciences. the research model created for this purpose was tested with the structural equation model. the research was carried out with the convenience sampling method, with a sample (n=407) consisting of 3rd and 4th grade students of 18 universities from 7 different geographical regions. in obtaining the data, a) the person-job fit scale developed by saks and ashforth (2002), b) the corporate image scale used by lemmink et al. (2003), c) the organizational attractiveness scale developed by cable and judge (1994) and honeycutt and rosen (1997) put forward by rau and hyland (2002), d) the job application intention scale developed by herdman and carlson (2009) and e) the recognition scale developed by gomes and neves (2011) were used. reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis were used in the analysis of data obtained. according to the research results, it has been determined that corporate image contributes to the position of the organization in the sector, that is, it increases the recognition of the organization. it can be stated that organizational attractiveness has a significant effect on the relationship with the intention to apply for a job. as a result, it was determined that familiarity, person-job fit and corporate image were moderately and highly correlated with the intention to apply for a job, while organizational attractiveness played a mediating role in this relationship.