Aisha Sabir and Syed Kashir Zaidi2025-10-022025-10-022024https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/7802Through the lens of Career Construction Theory (CCT), the mediating role of employee work engagement (EWE) between work orientations (calling, job and career) and employee job satisfaction (EJS) was evaluated. Target population for this was the higher education universities faculty in Punjab and a total of 318 responses were collected using both online and by hand forms. Mediation analysis was performed through partial least square (PLS) method using Smart PLS 4.0. The validity and reliability was established by evaluating cronbach alpha, composite reliability and AVE. Goodness of fit of model was also assessed through SRMR, R2 and Q2 . The obtained results highlighted that there exists a full mediation between career work orientation and job satisfaction. Results for other two hypotheses including the effect of job work orientation on job satisfaction and the effect of career work orientation on job satisfaction via mediation showed partial mediation. The study highlights the fact that how different work orientations effect job satisfaction differently and that job work orientation is negatively related to job satisfaction. The study contributed to exploring work orientation in non-western countries and also added to literature by studying all three work orientations together.enThesis