Benefits Of Internship

2.2 Perception on internship experience
Various definitions and theories have been given on students’ perceptions regarding internship experiences.
Green et al (2011) have emphasized that student’s internship perceptions were the perceived-values that students utilize throughout the internship which can improve into significant attributes that employers cherished. They form the bases in attaining the set goals of the internship.
Yongmei, Jun and Weitz (2011) classified perceptions as the student’s attitudes which influence the satisfaction and the outcome of the internship experience.

Johari and Bradshaw (2008) have also reiterated that the main motivation of students for participating in an internship program will influence their attribution

(Coco, 2000)
For relevance to this study, the benefits believed to offer to students and organisation will be reviewed.

Various researches on internship outcome have revealed that students gain enormous benefits from participating in an internship.
Foremost, five major benefits of internship to students have been identified in various researches on internship. Coco, 2000, has cited these benefits as:
1) Practical application and usage of the acquired knowledge of theories and concepts from classroom.
2) Familiarity and awareness on their choice of industry. 3) Period to identify interests and aspirations.
4) Decreasing the unawareness in the field.
5) Ability to adopt and accustom to situations which students believes it the possible to achieve during internship. students acquire significant hands-on experience (Mounce et al., 2004).. It gives students opportunity to develop specific job skills that are barely available during the studies in the institutions (programmes) (Garavan and Murphy,

Job satisfaction could be defined as the degree at which individuals like or dislike their jobs and how they feel about the various components of their jobs (Spector, 1977 cited in Klee, 2011).
In considering satisfaction particularly to internship situations, a more general job satisfaction theories and studies will be exploited in other to determine the elements of interest.

2.5 Factors That Influences Internship
D’Abate et al (2009) in their study assessed internship satisfaction by using investigated three distinct factors which comprises job characteristics, organizational environment, and contextual factors.
According to Knouse and Fontenot (2008), individual factors including achieved grades, attitudes regarding internships, acceptable companies, and person’s career self-efficacy are fundamental predictors with regards to internship satisfaction.
For relevance and purpose of this study, three major factors; individual factors, job characteristics and organizational environment will be looked