TY - JOUR
T1 - Employability Development during Internships
T2 - A Three-Wave Study on a Sample of Psychology Graduates in Italy
AU - Lo Presti, Alessandro
AU - Costantini, Arianna
AU - Akkermans, Jos
AU - Sartori, Riccardo
AU - De Rosa, Assunta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - This study adopts a resource perspective to investigate the development of graduates’ resource-based employability across a 1-year internship. We examined factors referring to agency (job crafting in the form of crafting challenges and crafting resources) and context (organizational social socialization tactics) as mechanisms contributing to employability development during initial work experiences (internships). Data were collected in Italy from 316 master graduates in psychology at three time points. Longitudinal structural equation modeling results showed that baseline employability was positively associated with job crafting. However, job crafting was only significantly associated with employability at the end of the internship among those reporting high crafting resources and medium-to-high organizational social socialization tactics. Hence, beyond a focus on proactivity only, organizational support and opportunities to form social networks are essential to sustain interns’ employability development.
AB - This study adopts a resource perspective to investigate the development of graduates’ resource-based employability across a 1-year internship. We examined factors referring to agency (job crafting in the form of crafting challenges and crafting resources) and context (organizational social socialization tactics) as mechanisms contributing to employability development during initial work experiences (internships). Data were collected in Italy from 316 master graduates in psychology at three time points. Longitudinal structural equation modeling results showed that baseline employability was positively associated with job crafting. However, job crafting was only significantly associated with employability at the end of the internship among those reporting high crafting resources and medium-to-high organizational social socialization tactics. Hence, beyond a focus on proactivity only, organizational support and opportunities to form social networks are essential to sustain interns’ employability development.
KW - employability
KW - internship
KW - job crafting
KW - school-to-work-transitions
KW - socialization tactics
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U2 - 10.1177/08948453231161291
DO - 10.1177/08948453231161291
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85150023061
SN - 0894-8453
VL - 50
SP - 1155
EP - 1171
JO - Journal of Career Development
JF - Journal of Career Development
IS - 6
ER -