Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries. Issue 4 (12th February 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries. Issue 4 (12th February 2021)
- Main Title:
- Perceived quality of internships and employability perceptions: the mediating role of career-entry worries
- Authors:
- Ebner, Katharina
Soucek, Roman
Selenko, Eva - Abstract:
- Abstract : 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' self-perceived 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/value: 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.
- Is Part Of:
- Education + training. Volume 63:Issue 4(2021)
- Journal:
- Education + training
- Issue:
- Volume 63:Issue 4(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 63, Issue 4 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0063-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 579
- Page End:
- 596
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02-12
- Subjects:
- Career-entry worries -- Employability -- Graduate students -- Work experience -- Internship
Vocational education -- Periodicals
Occupational training -- Periodicals
Business and education -- Periodicals
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http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1108/ET-02-2020-0037 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0040-0912
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