Interior design, like other applied disciplines, has a clear career cycle requiring education and professional experience before becoming eligible for examination. Internships are often encouraged in academic curriculums for increased career placement and enhancement of student learning outcomes; they also serve as a benchmark for academic programs to evaluate their curriculum and its relevance to practice. As the design industry rapidly shifts the scope and needs in projects, it becomes more difficult for academic programs to assess practitioners' values as they relate to recent interns and entry-level hires. Using a social constructivist approach, this longitudinal study aims to better understand practitioners' perceptions of soft and hard skill sets necessary for emerging interior design professionals. This study utilizes content analysis to evaluate practitioners' responses (N = 260) from 2006 to 2014 through a survey questionnaire that consisted of open-ended questions aimed to evaluate senior-level interior design students' performance during the required 400-hour internship at a mid-sized Southeastern university. The findings showed that soft skills were more often listed as positive attributes where interns performed exceedingly well. Furthermore, soft skills affected the willingness of practitioners to hire interns.

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软技能与硬技能：从业者对室内设计实习生的看法

室内设计与其他应用学科一样，具有明确的职业周期，需要教育和专业经验才能获得考试资格。学术课程通常鼓励实习，以增加职业安置和提高学生学习成果；它们还可以作为学术课程的基准，以评估其课程及其与实践的相关性。随着设计行业迅速改变项目的范围和需求，学术课程更难评估从业者的价值观，因为它们与最近的实习生和入门级员工有关。这项纵向研究采用社会建构主义方法，旨在更好地了解从业者对新兴室内设计专业人士所需的软硬技能组合的看法。本研究利用内容分析来评估从业者从 2006 年到 2014 年的回答（N = 260），调查问卷由开放式问题组成，旨在评估高级室内设计学生在所需的 400 小时实习期间的表现。中等规模的东南大学。调查结果表明，软技能通常被列为实习生表现非常出色的积极属性。此外，软技能影响了从业者雇用实习生的意愿。调查结果表明，软技能通常被列为实习生表现非常出色的积极属性。此外，软技能影响了从业者雇用实习生的意愿。调查结果表明，软技能通常被列为实习生表现非常出色的积极属性。此外，软技能影响了从业者雇用实习生的意愿。