Although job seekers often rely on indirect or inaccurate information to assess the attractiveness of potential employers, internship experience provides more realistic and accurate information, which may influence organizational attractiveness. Through the ex-ante and ex-post (i.e., pre-internship and post-internship) research design with a sample of Japanese undergraduate students in a university-sponsored internship program, we found that, although organizational attractiveness on average declined after the internship, skill variety and feedback from employees in the internship job were positively related to perceived needs-supplies (NS) fit beyond the effect of its pre-internship level. The NS fit, in turn, was related to organizational attractiveness beyond the effect of its pre-internship level. Moreover, some of the above mediating effects were stronger for interns with high social skill and/or high self-esteem. Our findings highlight the importance of the effect of internships on college students’ school-to-work transition.

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实习经验和组织吸引力：现实的工作适合度视角

虽然求职者经常依赖间接或不准确的信息来评估潜在雇主的吸引力，但实习经验提供了更真实和准确的信息，这可能会影响组织的吸引力。通过在大学赞助的实习项目中以日本本科生为样本的事前和事后（即实习前和实习后）研究设计，我们发现，虽然组织吸引力在实习后平均下降，实习工作中员工的技能多样性和反馈与感知需求供应（NS）匹配正相关，超出了其实习前水平的影响。反过来，NS 适合度与组织吸引力有关，超出了其实习前水平的影响。而且，对于具有高社交技能和/或高自尊的实习生来说，上述一些中介效应更强。我们的研究结果强调了实习对大学生从学校到工作过渡的影响的重要性。