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영어

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how internship experiences affect the career preparation of female college students. The constant comparative method of data analysis was applied to person to person in-depth interviews of 12 female college students who participated in internship programs. Female students who had participated in an internship program mentioned that they were able to get a better understanding of an organization, a more solid understanding of their career personality through hands-on experience, and a more realistic view of women’s issues in workplace. Based on this learning, they experienced meaningful changes in career preparation after the internship. Many got to better grasp the meaning of work, and even reconsider their criteria for choosing jobs.
They made more specific and extended preparations for their career and were motivated their major subjects. Internship experiences can help female college students to break the myth of successful career women that had made them focus more on the external image of career women. By doing so, the experience enables female college students to have more realistic perception of career. Since the internship experience provides an opportunity for female college students to certify their aptitude, it empowered them to rely on their own decisions in pursuing careers. Finally, the internship experiences help them to overcome the "objective score-earning" way of career preparation by making them exert themselves to acquire competences needed for working in organizations.

한국어

본 연구는 인턴십 경험자들에 대한 질적 사례연구를 통해 인턴십 경험이 여대생의 진로준비에 미치는 영향을 이해하는데 목적이 있다. 본 연구의 자료수집을 위하여 인턴십에 참여한 여자 대학생 12명을 대상으로 반구조화 면담지를 사용한 심층면접을 하였으며, Glaser와 Strauss(1968)의 일정비교분석방법(constant comparative method)을 통해 자료를 분석하였다. 여대생들은 현장체험을 통한 조직 이해, 실무경험을 통한 자기이해, 일하는 여성관찰을 통한 여성 직업인의 현실 이해를 인턴십 과정에서 얻은 주요 학습으로 꼽았다. 이러한 학습을 바탕으로 여대생들은 인턴십 이후 일의 의미와 직업선택 기준의 변화, 진로준비 내용의 확대 및 준비 방법의 구체화, 전공수업에 대한 동기화를 경험하였다. 인턴십 경험은 여대생의 진로준비에 있어서 직업의식 전환을 통해 성공적인 커리어우먼의 외양과 이미지에 집중하는 피상적인 직업관에서 벗어나게 하고, 자기 적성에 대한 확인을 통해 주위의 영향력을 줄임으로써 진로결정도를 높이며, 조직생활에 필요한 역량 습득을 위해 노력함으로써 객관적 점수 획득 위주의 편향된 취업준비를 극복하는데 도움을 준다.