The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Japanese college students’ autonomy in internship on their career selfefficacy. The study attempts to investigate whether Japanese college students’ autonomy in internship will have a significant positive effect on their career self-efficacy. The data were collected from the students who had participated in the summer internship program in the academic year 2012. The pre – and post – questionnaires were administered. Career self-efficacy for the study was considered as the following four types confidence: 1) confidence to adapt oneself to the changes of working environments; 2) confidence to make decisions by oneself at one’s turning point in one’s career; 3) confidence to manage to new jobs; 4) confidence to become the talented people who meet surrounding expectations even if one’s working environment changes. The results show that their career confidence after their internship trainings improved. It was also found that their autonomy under the internship trainings clearly had a positive influence on their career confidence as a result of multiple linear regression analysis. The findings provide important implications on career education and present interesting hypotheses for future research on internship and work integrated learning.

This paper was logically established on the base of the following two clues. Firstly, the author paid close attention on presence and feature of internship specially conducted by Chinese social science graduate students. Secondly, the author compared needs and feedbacks of both graduates and their employers. This paper was designed to illustrate the relationship between graduates’ internship experience and employment. Such relationship was positively confirmed by analyzing the results of series of surveys including questionnaires, interviews and investigations. Furthermore, although both graduates and their employers thought highly of internship experience, but different side held quite different points of view. Employers would be more willingly to see graduates had gained relevant techniques and qualities from past internship experiences. Comparatively quantity and diversification made more sense to graduates. Such huge distinction revealed different perspectives when graduates and employers looking at the meaning and worth of internship.