Based on Work Value to Discuss the Effect of College Students’ Corporate Internship on the Employability

Autori:

Jianning WANG, Merissa H. LEE

Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 25-36

How to cite this article:

Wang, J., Lee, M.H. (2019). Based on Work Value to Discuss the Effect of College Students’ Corporate Internship on the Employability. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 64, 25-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33788/rcis.64.2

Abstract:

Employment in enterprises is getting flexible and international in past years. Along with the stricter employment market, the employment of college graduates is concerned. When getting into workplace, university new graduates have to face fiercely international competition and rapidly changing industrial structure; the changing employment market is also encountering strict test. Employability has been the highly emphasized issue in advanced countries that the promotion of students’ employability is listed as a major objective in the educational reform of universities, where employability is listed as a core objective. Taking college graduating students in Hebei Province as the empirical objects in this study, 297 valid copies of questionnaire are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 83%. The research results conclude 1.corporate internship would affect work value, 2.corporate internship would influence employability, 3.work value presents significantly positive effects on attitude and ability in employability, 4.work value shows remarkably positive effects on planning and learning in employability, and 5.work value reveals notably positive effects on knowledge application in employability. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to enhance college students’ employment after the graduation and assist in the lifelong employability.