한국 대학생들의 해외 인턴쉽 활성화를 위한 탐색적 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to suggest a solution for youth unemployment through creation of overseas internship opportunities for the youth. For this purpose, this research studies the current situation of overseas internship and suggests measures to expand overseas internship from various angles such as government, universities and corportions, based on a PPM model that explains push and pull factors of overseas employment. We have surveyed 108 overseas interns and analyzed 68 institutions participating in overseas internship. The e-mail survey was utilized as a baseline along with telephone surveys. The survey results show that over 70 percent of the interns are in their 20’s, proving the fact that the pull effects are higher for the younger people. Education attainment level seems to have a positive correlation with the pull factor of overseas internship, as there were more college graduates than technical college graduations, and more technical college graduates than high school graduates. The increase of domestic youth unemployment is influenced by the pull force of domestic labor market, while the recession of international economy shows that there is little pull effect of overseas labor market. Finally, this research suggests policies to activate overseas internship of the youth from the perspectives of the government, universities, and private firms. The government needs to design the long-term road-map for the overseas employment, prepare the overseas careers at the high school level, develop the public web-sites for overseas internships and working holiday students, construct a system linking and evaluating the overseas internship, service programs and overseas employment, assist the skilled labor find overseas jobs and finally develop the overseas employment assistance program for the colleges so that it can be evaluated by the Ministry of Education. The universities are requested to change th perception of overseas jobs by college students, provide the basic materials and information on overseas employment, develop the communication skills by the students and build the overseas employment assistance center. Corporations need to utilize the overseas interns as assistants for overseas branches and the retired manpower equipped with foreign languages, understanding of different culture and overseas experiences to manage the service and internship program for the developing countries. The overseas job world report needs to be developed and distributed, and finally the perception of overseas employment needs to be heightened through the overseas conference to the to-be-overseas applicants.