Research Intern, Korn Ferry Institute

OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR CAREER - It’s about exceeding your potential.

This position sits within the Korn Ferry Institute (KFI), an innovation center for Korn Ferry focused on illuminating key trends and drivers of human and organizational performance. KFI develops robust scientific research, cutting-edge intellectual property, and state-of-the-art analytics that are infused into Korn Ferry solutions. We provide unparalleled insights, thought leadership, research, data, and expertise. Our work enables individuals, teams, and organizations to make better-informed decisions to thrive in the new economy and to exceed their potential on their journey to greatness.

KFI is a highly agile, matrixed organization with dozens of projects active at any one time, many of which are strategic and high priority. The KFI includes professionals from diverse disciplines including industrial/organizational, quantitative, and educational psychology; sociology; neuroscience; and data science. As such, this role may require collaboration across research, thought leadership, data, analytics, IP, and measurement areas, and projects may involve multiple cross-functional stakeholders.

Our new 10-week global internship program is part of Korn Ferry Launch, which is an early-career development program created to give interns and recent graduates a head start in their professional life. It’s an invaluable learning experience that could be the fast track to a rewarding long-term career at Korn Ferry.

As an intern you’ll be given plenty of opportunity to make an impact here. In fact, you’ll be welcomed as a valued member of the team, and you’ll be working on real projects, alongside senior Korn Ferry Institute team members. Your assignments might include things like market mapping, analyzing data or even attending research homeroom meetings - professional experiences that will look great on your resume.

We’ll offer you plenty of support and guidance while you’re here, as well as practical training and development. This internship will help you learn the business and people skills you need to succeed in the workplace and give you the chance to start building your professional network.

Your time at Korn Ferry will help you discover where your professional strengths and interests lie and might help you decide on a future career path. Many of our interns go on to join our New Grad Program after graduation, and we hope they will stay with us as their careers continue to develop.

The Korn Ferry Global Internship Program is open to rising juniors and seniors from any academic major, as well as candidates earning post graduate degrees.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Research Intern will support primary research studies and validation efforts for new IP by conducting research, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and providing insights to provide value to our stakeholders. Key responsibilities may include:

• Support a validation study of new organizational effectiveness survey.
• Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data, including internal longitudinal engagement data, external outcomes data across companies, as well as survey specific data.
• Prepare and run advanced analysis on data sets, such as factor analysis, ANOVAS, relative weights analysis, and moderations.
• Search and synthesize empirical research relevant to study.
• Distill research, findings, and insights from research studies into client facing reports.
• Collaborate with research members to carry out primary research studies.

Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program in a relevant field, such as psychology, organizational behavior, or business.
• Experience in analyzing and interpreting both qualitative and quantitative data.
• Ability to use statistical analysis software, such as R (preferred).
• Experience visualizing data using tools such as, Power BI (preferred), but not necessary.
• Ability to search for, identify, and prioritize relevant scientific and professional literature.
• Ability to review, synthesize and summarize relevant scientific and professional literature to communicate key information to other professionals.
• Experience working independently and as part of a team.