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".   

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