Virtual internships as employer-led initiatives: Success criteria and reflections on the diversification of internships

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dc.contributor.authorJeske, Debora
dc.contributor.editorPapagiannidis, Savvas
dc.contributor.editorAlamanos, Eleftherios
dc.contributor.editorGupta, Suraksha
dc.contributor.editorDwivedi, Yogesh K.
dc.contributor.editorMäntymäki, Matti
dc.contributor.editorPappas, Ilias O.
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-29T14:35:53Z
dc.date.available2022-09-29T14:35:53Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-06
dc.description.abstractMany employers have trialed virtual internships over the past two years. Employer-led virtual internships (e-internships) have a long history that predates the Covid-19 pandemic. Previous research has already demonstrated the importance of how employers design their internships, and how they subsequently support, train and mentor interns for internship success. Fifty-one virtual interns completed a survey in 2020 about their virtual internships experience with employers in various countries. The survey examined predictors of internship satisfaction and usefulness. Multiple regression showed that information accuracy, perceived support (e.g., resources, access to help) and usefulness (in terms of knowledge advancement and consolidation) all significantly and positively predicted internship satisfaction. Social influence and perceived support also increased the ratings of perceived usefulness among virtual interns. The relationship between perceived support given by employers and internship satisfaction was partially mediated by perceived usefulness of the internship. This highlights the importance of employer-led provisions and the extent to the design of internships influence virtual interns’ subsequent evaluations. The study concludes with a discussion of practical implications and reflections on the need to differentiate and study the various virtual internship types that have appeared to analyze which one will add value and which types might be less beneficial or even exploitative of talent wishing to gain more experience via virtual internships.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationJeske, D. (2022) 'Virtual internships as employer-led initiatives: Success criteria and reflections on the diversification of internships, in: Papagiannidis, S., Alamanos, E., Gupta, S., Dwivedi, Y. K., Mäntymäki, M. and Pappas, I. O. (eds) The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World. I3E 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13454, pp. 167–179. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_13en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_13en
dc.identifier.endpage179en
dc.identifier.issn0302-9743
dc.identifier.journaltitleLecture Notes in Computer Scienceen
dc.identifier.startpage167en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13707
dc.identifier.volume13454en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AGen
dc.rights© 2022, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. Published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a paper published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_13en
dc.subjectVirtual internshipen
dc.subjecte-Internshipen
dc.subjectExpectation managementen
dc.subjectPerceived supporten
dc.subjectMentoringen
dc.subjectTrainingen
dc.subjectCovid-19en
dc.subjectDiversificationen
dc.titleVirtual internships as employer-led initiatives: Success criteria and reflections on the diversification of internshipsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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