인턴십을 통한 대학생의 경력탐색과정과 경력인식의 분석과 함의

초록

Internship provides learning opportunities for undergraduate students who are planning to build their future careers. Since most of the approaches on internship research use quantified survey which measures effectiveness of internship programs, there is lack of understanding on how internship experience affect interns’ perception on career planning and on how contextual factors interact during the internship participation. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore how interns learn from their internship participation, and how their experience lead them to plan their careers. The study conducted in-depth interviews with 21 undergraduate students who participated internship program at various organizations. The research findings showed that interns learned from their experience and, especially from the people who interacted consistently. Their internship experience not only led them to plan their careers but also to (re)construct their vocational identities and selves. For these undergraduate students/interns, the internship participation can be seen as the transformational process where the legitimate peripheral participants become the core members’ of the workplace. The study also found out that the learning experience of internship was largely affected by the relationship they built with the people in the organizations, and the internship system and activities the organizations provide for the interns. The more the interns were accepted as the core members of the organization, the more they felt included or positioned them as the future workers in that occupation. Hence, it is important to acknowledge that internship experience can be a great learning opportunities for undergraduate students as to build their career plans only if the organizations provide them with proper roles and responsibilities that allow the interns to actually experience the real work and build relationship with the people in the organization.

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