DETERMINING IMPORTANCE LEVELS OF INTERN STUDENT ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA BY SWARA METHOD: A RESEARCH ON HUMAN RESOURCES ASSOCIATE STUDENTS

Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 447 - 456, 30.06.2017

Engin Cakir , Sinasi Yaylagul

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.431

Abstract

This study
is to determine the weight of the criteria, which are important for the
students, studying in Human Resources Management Associate Degree Program of
the universities, to be accepted as intern in Human Resources department of
companies during their compulsory summer internships, by using SWARA method and
thus to be guiding for what criteria should be focused in the education of the
students who want to do their internships in the companies which are pioneers
in the sector. The study was conducted with mid- and lower level managers
(decision makers) in the Human Resources department having a role in the
pre-evaluation of the internship applications of the companies which are in
leading position in their sectors. In the study, firstly, each decision maker
ranked the criteria by placing the most important one as the first, and then
they revealed the significance levels among the criteria. Finally, the
significance levels (weights) of the criteria were determined as a result of
the calculation of the data obtained from the decision makers by using the
SWARA method. According to the results of SWARM method, the most important
criterion is "the desire to practice internship of the intern
candidate", the second most important criterion is "the suitability to
work of the intern candidate" and third most important criterion is
"general appearance / first impression of the intern candidate". 

 

Keywords

Intern Selection Criteria, SWARA Method, Human Resources, Intern

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