You have just graduated from a specialized program in an emerging and little-known field of engineering and are currently looking for a job that will apply your valuable skills.This is the only program of its kind in your country and has very limited enrollment.Your recently acquired knowledge offers great potential for organizations although few people are aware of this.Name and describe the sources and contingencies of power you and other graduates from this program have in the labor market.

To answer this question, we must consider both the bases and contingencies of power that you and other graduates have in their favor.The primary power base is expert power because your knowledge is of potential value to organizations.In other words, you and fellow graduates possess a unique knowledge upon which organizations would be potentially dependent.We do not have enough information in the incident to know whether the power base deals with coping with organizational uncertainties, but coping with uncertainty is also a form of expert power.
Although your expert power is potentially very great, the actual power you possess is far from its potential.This is because some contingencies of power are not maximized.The strongest contingency in your favor is non-substitutability.You have graduated from the only program of its kind in your country, which has very limited enrolment.This means that organizations have a limited source of supply for this resource and you control some of that resource (i.e.your own knowledge).We have no information about centrality or discretion.However, it is reasonable to assume that the unique knowledge would allow you some discretion in your work activities.Moreover, your job would have pervasiveness (probably not immediacy) since it would have a substantial effect on the organization's profitability.
Visibility is the weak link in the power model in this incident.While your knowledge is potentially very important to organizations, firms neither know about this field of engineering nor how it would benefit them.Moreover, they do not seem to know that you have graduated from the only program of its kind in the country.