Does Internship Enhance the Employment Satisfaction of Undergraduates in Application Oriented University? - Evidence from Survey Data of Five Universities

Based on the survey data graduates from five application-oriented universities in Guangdong, This paper analyze the influence of internship on employment satisfaction with multiple linear regression model. The main findings are : the internship has a positive and significant impact on the employment satisfaction of college students, especially on the internal matching satisfaction; The influence effect is heterogeneous among groups with different genders, majors and family locations.Therefore, college students should actively participate in extracurricular internships, and under the guidance of career planning, purposefully look for internships related to the jobs they want to engage in in the future, so as to enhance their employability and improve employment satisfaction.