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; economics; 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 game creation, market mapping, analyzing data, or even attending organizational IP 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 Korn Ferry Institute optimizes the success of people, teams, and organizations. We do this by empowering Korn Ferry to deliver the highest client value through research-based insights, innovative research, IP development, and leading-edge data analytics.
Key Responsibilities for this Internship Include:
Development of a scalable, online game-based assessment designed to measure cognitive abilities at both the individual and team level. This work will directly support team effectiveness research and align with our existing cognitive ability model and assessments.
Internship Project: Gamified Team and Individual Cognitive Assessment
- Lead front-end and/or back-end development of the web-based game (e.g., UI implementation, game logic, data capture, or system integration).
- Contribute to the development of interactive gameplay features, including user flows, feedback systems, scoring logic, and progression mechanics.
- Assist in the design and implementation of game mechanics that validly and reliably measure cognitive, behavioral, and team interaction attributes aligned with established assessment models.
- Help design and implement data collection and instrumentation to ensure gameplay produces usable assessment data at both individual and team levels.
- Conduct usability testing and playtesting, gather user feedback, and assist in refining gameplay and interface design based on findings.
- Assist with debugging, optimization, and performance tuning to ensure a stable and scalable proof of concept.
Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Game Design/Development, Interactive Media, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or similar field.
- Strong foundation in virtual game design
- Understand online-based, gamified assessments
- Experience working with calculating scores based on actions taken in the game
- Ability to translate analytical outputs into business-relevant insights
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to work on open-ended, exploratory problems
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and privacy regulations is preferred
- Familiarity with psychology, behavioral design and/or measurement theory is a bonus
Why Join Korn Ferry?
This internship offers a unique opportunity to contribute to Korn Ferry’s industry-leading intellectual property while building skills in research, data analysis, and competency modeling. You'll work alongside experts, gain insights into leadership development and assessment practices, and make a real impact on innovative solutions shaping organizational success.
