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Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries
Purpose: This study illuminates the assumption that internships facilitate labor market entry and answers the question of why internships have a positive effect on students’ selfperceived employability. It is assumed that internships enable more positive employability perceptions by reducing career-...
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| author | Katharina Ebner Roman Soucek Eva Selenko |
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| description | Purpose: This study illuminates the assumption that internships facilitate labor market entry and answers the question of why internships have a positive effect on students’ selfperceived employability. It is assumed that internships enable more positive employability perceptions by reducing career-entry worries – the worries of not finding a suitable job or not being able to obtain a satisfactory career.Design/methodology/approach: A two-wave study among graduate students currently in an internship investigated these relationships. Data on career-entry worries, perceived employability and an evaluation of the internship were collected from 80 students (mean age: 24.6 years, 68% female) from various fields of study aiming at both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.Findings: The results showed that positively-evaluated internships contributed to graduates’ self-perceived employability by means of reduced career-entry worries over an eight week period.Originality: By considering graduates’ career-entry worries – the perceived uncertainty about finding an ‘appropriate’ career in the future – the authors introduce a new concept to the career literature and show that these worries are significant in terms of self-assessed employability. |
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| spelling | rr-article-135364312021-02-12T00:00:00Z Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries Katharina Ebner (9952907) Roman Soucek (9756211) Eva Selenko (2865230) Other education not elsewhere classified career-entry worries employability graduate students work experience internship Education <div>Purpose: This study illuminates the assumption that internships facilitate labor market entry and answers the question of why internships have a positive effect on students’ selfperceived employability. It is assumed that internships enable more positive employability perceptions by reducing career-entry worries – the worries of not finding a suitable job or not being able to obtain a satisfactory career.</div><div>Design/methodology/approach: A two-wave study among graduate students currently in an internship investigated these relationships. Data on career-entry worries, perceived employability and an evaluation of the internship were collected from 80 students (mean age: 24.6 years, 68% female) from various fields of study aiming at both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.</div><div>Findings: The results showed that positively-evaluated internships contributed to graduates’ self-perceived employability by means of reduced career-entry worries over an eight week period.</div><div>Originality: By considering graduates’ career-entry worries – the perceived uncertainty about finding an ‘appropriate’ career in the future – the authors introduce a new concept to the career literature and show that these worries are significant in terms of self-assessed employability.</div><div><br></div> 2021-02-12T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/13536431.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Perceived_quality_of_internships_and_employability_perceptions_the_mediating_role_of_career-entry_worries/13536431 CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Other education not elsewhere classified career-entry worries employability graduate students work experience internship Education Katharina Ebner Roman Soucek Eva Selenko Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries |
| title | Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries |
| title_full | Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries |
| title_fullStr | Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries |
| title_short | Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries |
| title_sort | perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries |
| topic | Other education not elsewhere classified career-entry worries employability graduate students work experience internship Education |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/13536431.v1 |