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@article{208969,
        author = {Eshan Metwate and Sairaj Patil and Ayush Toke and Lakhan Hirave and Dr. Sunil Mahajan},
        title = {A Readiness-Aware Internship Recommendation and Skill-Gap Analysis System for Students},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {no},
        pages = {727-735},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=208969},
        abstract = {Students today have access to so many internship listings than ever, spread across various internship-search platforms, college placement portals, company career pages, government-run schemes. Yet most of these platforms focus primarily on matching and ranking opportunities, while providing limited support for understanding whether a student is actually eligible, which specific requirements they do not satisfy, and what skills they could improve. This paper proposes a conceptual architecture for a readiness-aware internship recommendation and skill-gap analysis system for students. The proposed design compares a student's education, skills, experience, and preferences against internship requirements and extends conventional matching by identifying satisfied and unsatisfied eligibility conditions and highlighting specific skill gaps. Rather than presenting a system that has already been implemented and empirically validated, this paper defines its conceptual architecture, data flow, processing stages, and reasoning logic as a theoretical foundation for future implementation and empirical evaluation. The proposed framework is situated within gaps identified across internship recommendation, explainable matching, and skill-gap analysis research. The architecture therefore provides a basis for future investigation into whether presenting readiness and skill-gap information alongside internship recommendations can help students better understand requirements and make more informed application decisions.},
        keywords = {Readiness-Aware Internship Recommendation, Internship Readiness, Skill-Gap Analysis, Student Decision Support, Student Employability, Career Decision Support},
        month = {September},
        }