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Considering the increasing rate of competition in the graduates’ job market as well as the increase in education costs and society's expectations from the higher education system to develop employability, the current empirical research has investigated the effect of drivers of social media usage and job seeking behavior on the employability of students of Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Tehran. In this quantitative research which is a causal-relational study, 187 students (from all educational levels) were sampled from a population of 3500 cases using Daniel's limited population formula. Simple random sampling method was used to select the individual samples. A close-ended questionnaire was employed to collect data. The face, discriminant, and construct validities were checked and confirmed. Then,  coefficient was utilized to check the reliability of the research tool. The results of reliability test revealed that the coefficient for each construct was more than 0.7 as an acceptable cut-off vale. The dominant statistical method used in this research was variance-based structural equation modeling using Smart PLS 3 software. The modeling results indicated that drivers of the use of social media did not affect the job seeking behavior of students, while this construct had a positive and significant effect on the employability dimensions. Also, job seeking behavior positively and significantly affected employability dimensions. According to the results, it was suggested to set up an agricultural knowledge and information network in the agricultural higher education system.

In the recent years, range management plans have played an important role in preventing rangeland degradation and improving their conditions. The principal essence of any range management plan is to involve those people who exploit the range resources, without which range management efficiency will be negligible. Accordingly, this study aimed to investigate factors influencing participation of pastoralists in range management plans in Tafresh County rangelands. This study designed as a correlation-descriptive research. A sample of 55 out of 95 pastoralists in the study area were selected, using “systematic random sampling” method. The findings revealed that the extent of satisfaction of plan, stakeholders awareness, motivation for participation, extent of mass media use, effectiveness of extension methods, livestock ownership, ownership of rain-fed land, ownership of sheep and goats, number of livestock permit number, and the periods that livestock is maintained in village had positive significant correlation with the extent of participation in range management plans. In addition, extents of participation of pastoralists groups were significantly different in terms of types of plans. In conclusion, people participation should be taken into account in all stages of designing and implementing range management plans, hence the effectiveness of these plans can be guaranteed.