GRADUATE EMPLOYBILITY

The Impact of Internships on Graduate Employability

Executive Summary

Nowadays, higher education and aptitude policies considered as main topics of discussion in educational circles, politics and media. This topic discusses the number of graduates that universities are producing each year and their rate of employment. The focus of these discussions is on the concerns of graduate employment along with different data and information. This is done to make prominent the unparalleled competition that is faced by the graduates in finding jobs. Only few graduates are able to find employment that is relevant to their degree. It is observed that a large number of graduates are failed to find jobs that can match with their skills and degree. So they are not rewarded for their high investment that they made during their years of study.

In this situation, when graduates are having problems in finding jobs for themselves, it is observed that internships are playing vital role in improving the skills and aptitude of graduates. These internships increase the value of the graduates and they become more demanding by the organizations in the competitive market place.

Introduction

Graduate employability has emerged a topic of main concern these days. Graduates are facing problems in getting good jobs. In these conditions internships are playing vital role for the graduates. An internship actually means the experience of working in students' specific fields. During internship students practically do what they learn during their studies. This enhances their learning skills and aptitude. Students work on a short-term basis with any organization and gain their internship certificates. Students who complete their internship during their studies have a great opportunity since they have better understanding of what they learnt.

Discussion

Graduate Labor Market

The information of graduate current labor market displays a clear picture of the situation of the recent graduates related to their recruitment and average earnings. In the past, there was an obvious difference between the job level of a graduate and non-graduate. The graduates who used to complete their 4 or 5 years degree programs tended to enter in good organizations possessing high posts (Field, 2009.pp.132-143).

But in this existing situation, the graduate labor market seems to be much more composite. The advancement in competitive market place has turned the situation very complex. The companies now need much more highly skilled employers. This increases the recruitment criteria of prestigious organizations (Cottrell, 2010.pp.101-120).

The Graduate Labor Market (GLM) research program established by IER covers a wide range of tasks that are based on the relation between employment and higher education. This includes detailed interview based surveys in order to inspect graduates' experiences of previous market labor as well as the outcomes of higher education development on economic development. The main focus is to perform a detailed analysis of candidates possess a position in higher education by investigating the relations between the opportunities offered to them by labor market, their career motivation and their respective degrees of higher education (Saunders and Berman 2007.pp.78-89).

The research program named as Future track actually focuses on fresh graduates and is mostly ...