...Anna F. Gödöllei; James W. Beck; Rebecca Cowan; Jenny Cruickshank; Lucas Maliniak Purpose Internships are a common form of short-term employment for students seeking to demonstrate their value to employers and thereby improve their post-graduation career opportunities. As such, performance during...

...Zach Jenkins; Christina Yao Purpose While research consistently highlights the benefits of internships for business students, this scholarly discussion is typically framed in race-neutral and meritocratic language that minimizes the importance that race plays during internship experiences. Given...

...Sophia Vicente; Mayra Artiles; Holly Matusovich; Cheryl Carrico Purpose We used a complementary mixed methods approach, grounded in situated expectancy-value theory, to explore the relationship between completing an internship and engineering undergraduate students’ preparedness and expectancy...

...) and internship quality jointly shape the newly acquired professional competences of interns. Design/methodology/approach This study utilised the COMET methodology to conduct a large-scale assessment of professional competence amongst 961 graduates from vocational colleges who had successfully completed...

... at an Australian university who had recently completed an internship and were nearing graduation took part in the study. Group A was surveyed before COVID-19 had emerged and Group B undertook their internships during a COVID-19 lockdown when the related economic downturn had become apparent. The responses were...

...Maria S. Plakhotnik; Kristina S. Shmaytser; Kirill A. Feofilov Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate attractiveness of internship advertisements to the prospective applicants through the lens of employer branding. By giving attention to internship attractiveness, universities...

...Claire M. Mason; Shanae M. Burns; Elinor A. Bester Purpose The authors proposed that participation in large-scale, structured events designed to match students to employers' internship opportunities could support students' employability by focussing students' career goals, strengthening students...

... undergraduate business approaching graduation were gathered on how they applied theory to practice during their recent internship. Findings Graduating students apply theory that they have learnt at university through the direct application of fundamental knowledge and through workplace experience, which...

...Philip S. Rose; Stephen T.T. Teo; Diep Nguyen; Nguyen Phong Nguyen Purpose Internships are utilized globally to recruit graduate employees. However, there is a limited understanding of the process by which interns convert into regular employees, particularly in non-Western research contexts...

...Elena Urquía-Grande; Raquel Pérez Estébanez Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to analyse the internship expectations gap amongst the three main internship stakeholders: employers (company supervisors), academic supervisors and students, in an effort to detect the variables which could...

...Sarah M. Zehr; Russell Korte Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of engineering student interns, as well as the perceptions of internship supervisors. Design/methodology/approach The study was designed to investigate internships as a complex social phenomenon...

...Frank Sligo; Teresa Heinz Housel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore US students’ experience in for-credit, unpaid internships overseas with particular reference to their personal development, how they mobilised their knowledge across contexts, their learning as acquisition...

...Holly Matusovich; Cheryl Carrico; Angela Harris; Sheri Sheppard; Samantha Brunhaver; Ruth Streveler; Marlena B. McGlothlin Lester Purpose Internships play an important role in the choices engineering students make about future career pathways though there is little research about the messaging...

... by investigating the value of internship electives in the TNE campus location. Design/methodology/approach A grounded theory approach employed semi-structured interviews with local business undergraduate alumni in Vietnam. Findings Internships were instrumental to local graduate employment transitions...

... advantage in the labor market, it is important to determine how employability is defined uniquely for graduate students. Thus, modeling employability for graduate students offers a more nuanced understanding of employer perceptions of employability. Internships Employability Work experience...

...Miriam Rothman; Ruth Sisman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the impact of the internship experience on business students’ career intentions in regard to pursuing a career path in the same job function or industry as their internship. Design/methodology/approach After...

...Beverley Jackling; Riccardo Natoli Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the perceptions of internship providers with respect to the employability skills of international accounting graduates that undertake a Professional Year Program (PYP) incorporating a 12-week (240 hour...

...Lynda Holyoak Purpose Internships are becoming a more common feature of the career paths of young people, however there has been little consideration of how people learn on internships. The purpose of this paper is report on the experiences of interns and their supervisors on a research internship...

... internship. An online survey was used to assess the influence of interns’ psychological contract expectations regarding employer obligations, supervisory support expectations, job satisfaction, perception of advancement opportunities, and affective organisational commitment on interns’ conversion intentions...