📚 Economics Aptitude Test Handshake: 2025 Internship Index Report | Economics Aptitude Test 握手：2025年实习指数报告
The 2025 Internship Index is not a feel-good campus survey. It is an economic stress test. By 2025, the internship market is no longer a simple pre-career experience; it has become a highly competitive, far-reaching, and decisive battlefield. For economics students, the report is also a live case study of scarcity, signalling, screening, and opportunity cost.
2025 年实习指数不是一份让人安心的校园调查，而是一场经济压力测试。到了 2025 年，实习市场已经不是单纯的职前体验，而是变成了一个竞争特别激烈、影响十分深远、具有决定性作用的战场。对经济学学生来说，这份报告也是稀缺、信号、筛选和机会成本的实时案例。
1. Framing the 2025 Internship Index | 2025 年实习指数的分析框架
The word 'handshake' in the title has two meanings. It refers to the internship platform Handshake, which publishes market data, and to the matching handshake between an economics aptitude test and a real opportunity. The index therefore measures both market tightness and the quality of matching between students and employers.
标题里的 '握手' 有两层意思。它既指发布市场数据的 Handshake 实习平台，也指经济学能力测试与真实机会之间的匹配握手。因此，这份指数既衡量市场紧张程度，也衡量学生与雇主之间匹配的质量。
An economics aptitude test usually examines mathematical reasoning, logical deduction, data interpretation, opportunity cost, and supply-and-demand modelling. It does not measure motivation, resilience, or communication. That gap matters when the market becomes crowded.
经济学能力测试通常考查数学推理、逻辑推演、数据解读、机会成本以及供需建模。它并不测量动机、韧性或沟通能力。当市场变得拥挤时，这一差距就变得重要。
2. Supply and Demand Imbalance | 实习市场供需失衡
The headline finding is a reversal of supply and demand. Between January 2023 and January 2025, the number of internship postings in the market fell by more than 15%. At the same time, the number of applications from university students rose sharply.
最核心的发现是供需关系反转。数据表明，在 2023 年 1 月至 2025 年 1 月期间，市场中的实习岗位数量减少了超过 15%。与此同时，大学生的求职申请数量大幅上升。
The average number of applications per internship more than doubled in the past two years. This one-up, one-down combination makes finding an internship clearly harder. Students widely report unprecedented pressure.
单个实习岗位的平均申请人数在过去两年内增长超过一倍。这一增一减的情况，直接致使寻找实习机会的难度明显增大，学生群体普遍体会到前所未有的压力。
Average competition ratio = Total applications ÷ Number of internship postings
In simple terms, the queue is getting longer while the number of doors is getting smaller. That is the textbook definition of a tighter market.
简单来说，队伍越来越长，门却越来越少。这就是市场收紧的教科书式定义。
3. Hot Sectors Turn White-Hot | 热门行业竞争白热化
Competition is concentrated in technology, finance, and professional services. Applications for internships in these fields are roughly twice the market average. Top-university students crowd into the same roles.
竞争焦点在于科技、金融、专业服务等传统热门领域。这些行业实习岗位的申请数量大约是市场平均值的两倍，吸引了诸多顶尖院校学生的关注。
As a result, screening standards rise. School background, technical skills, and project experience matter more than ever, intensifying the 'involution' of talent筛选. Candidates are not only competing on ability; they are competing on signals.
这种集中竞争致使相关岗位筛选标准提高，对候选人学校背景、专业技能以及项目经验提出了更高要求，进而加剧了人才筛选的 '内卷' 态势。候选人不仅是在能力上竞争，也是在信号上竞争。
| Sector | 行业 | Relative application volume | 相对申请量 | Screening focus | 筛选重点 |
|---|---|---|
| Technology | 科技 | About 2× market average | 约为市场平均两倍 | Technical skills, projects | 技术能力、项目经验 |
| Finance | 金融 | About 2× market average | 约为市场平均两倍 | School background, numeracy | 学校背景、数理能力 |
| Professional services | 专业服务 | About 2× market average | 约为市场平均两倍 | Communication, internships | 沟通能力、实习经历 |
4. The Nature of Internships Has Changed | 实习性质的根本转变
The role of internships in students' career planning has changed qualitatively. Up to 72% of students treat an internship as a test of future career direction. Nearly 60% say it is crucial for clarifying personal career goals.
在学生职业规划里，实习经历所扮演的角色已然产生了质性的变化。高达 72% 的学生把实习当作是探寻未来职业走向的检验标准，将近六成的学生觉得它对于明晰个人职业目标有着至关重要的作用。
Internships are no longer a simple decoration on a CV. They are a key link between academic study and professional work, and they influence long-term development decisions.
这样的一种转变表明，实习不再是在简历上的那种简易装点，而是成为了连接学术领域与职业领域、对长期发展决策产生影响的关键环节。
In economic language, an internship is no longer just a consumption good that makes a CV look better. It is an investment good that produces information about future returns.
用经济学语言说，实习不再只是一种让简历好看的消费品，而是一种能产生未来回报信息的投资品。
5. What Employers Must Offer | 雇主吸引人才的关键因素
To win the talent competition, employers must offer attractive internship experiences. Research shows that pay fairness directly affects interns' willingness to stay.
企业要赢得人才竞争，关键是提供有吸引力的实习体验。研究表明
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