Seong Ji Jeong

Seong Ji Jeong, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Workforce Education and Development (WFED) in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems in the College of Education at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include workforce development program evaluations, career transitions and trajectories, and the aging workforce, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes. Particularly, she is interested in investigating organizational and institutional measures to support individuals’ smooth career transition from school-to-work, work-to-work, and work-to-retirement. In her research and teaching, she employs a variety of quantitative methods using large-scale survey datasets and state-wide administrative datasets.

Her academic excellence can be found in high-impact peer-reviewed journals such as Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, and Korean scholarly journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Labor Policy, Social Welfare Studies, and Career Education Research. Dr. Jeong holds an M.Ed. and a Ph.D. with a major in vocational education and workforce development from Seoul National University, South Korea. Prior to joining the Penn State College of Education faculty, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Ohio Education Research Center at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and a lecturer in the Quantitative Research, Evaluation and Measurement Program at the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University.