Internship Platforms for Work-Based Learning

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200324.051How to use a DOI?

Keywords

internship, online-platform, student, employer

Abstract

The enterprise internship and the acquisition of practical skills while studying at the university are the realities of a modern student around the world. The quality of internship is beneficial for all the stakeholders involved into this process: for students it is a transition from school to professional life; for universities it increases brand value; for employers it is the opportunity to get them motivated and capable students. The problem is: how among the hundreds of internship proposals find the right one? What are the criteria by which the employers and specialized organizations offer internships and students choose them? what to expect from the internship? Therefore, the issue of choosing the criteria for searching and implementing internships is very relevant. The purpose of the article is to focus on online internship platforms for student-employer interaction and to formulate the criteria of choice and distinctive features of the platforms. The research paper based on methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis, Benchmarking techniques. Studying the best practices of 6 countries with 62 online resources (platforms) and classifying them into 4 groups (Specialized Internship Platforms; Universities Websites; Specialized Websites for Jobs; Corporate Websites), the authors determined the peculiarities of each group and the functional purpose of each resource within the group, its capabilities and limitations. Some recommendations on the development of specialized internship platforms in Russia are introduced. Research has practical relevance adds value for all stakeholders in a process of internship organization and quality improvement.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Natalia Molodchik
AU  - Galina Ostapenko
AU  - Natalia Nagibina
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/30
TI  - Internship Platforms for Work-Based Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the “New Silk Road: Business Cooperation and Prospective of Economic Development” (NSRBCPED 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 276
EP  - 280
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200324.051
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200324.051
ID  - Molodchik2020
ER  -