Relationship between Staff Recruitment and Internship in Local Governments: From the Perspective of Employment Mismatch

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to focus on employment recruitment and internship in local governments from the viewpoint of employment mismatch and to examine factors behind it.

There are an increasing number of companies and others implementing internships to eliminate employment mismatches represented by early retirement of young people who do not decrease.

Local governments that are doing internships are increasing. But internships are prohibited from being associated with recruitment activities. Even if the work experience in the internship, it is often useless duties after hiring.

Because, in order to comply with the law, they focus on implementing fair recruiting activities rather than hiring highly skilled people. Also, there are various stakeholders, and the values are persistent that they take no risk. Actually, even if there is no risk, even if 1% possibly they do not take risks. They are merely doing internship, which is engaging in recruitment activities.

Therefore, the idea of how to flexibly operate after complying with the law and respecting it is required. Public officials cannot easily increase staff. This is because approval in Congress is necessary.