Summer 2023 Executive and Professional Search Internship
WHAT WE OFFER
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 consultants. Your assignments might include things like market mapping, creating client presentations, analyzing data or even attending client 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.
THE ROLE
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to assist Partner(s) and Consultant(s) in business development, social media, and research mapping strategies. Other responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
- Supporting searches in an Associate capacity, researching, supporting on client meetings, reviewing candidate profiles and candidate reports.
- Explore talent management strategies with clients.
- Create research ideas for business development projects, as well as manage existing candidate research projects as assigned by manager or recruiters
- Support Managing Partners and recruiters with social media strategies and presentations
- Client and candidate development research
- Generate target company lists and provide contact details
- Use all resources available to generate recruiting targets for active jobs
- Identifying potential candidates from a variety of online and proprietary tools
- Preparing company overviews for account teams
- Data quality management, ensure data integrity and update highly confidential candidate records in proprietary CRM
- Business development support, active participation in designing the search and business development strategy with the Partner and Consultant; proactive involvement as a valued team contributor throughout the search process from pitch to candidate development
- Use proprietary CRM tools to identify and market job assignment opportunities to targeted list of candidates in the existing resume database
- Manage online job board postings, resume searching and researching activities to maximize quality candidate sourcing for the recruiting team
- Create research ideas for business development projects, as well as manage existing candidate research projects as assigned by manager or recruiters
- Support Managing Partners and recruiters with social media strategies and presentations
COMPENSATION RATE: $18 - $25 per hour
QUALIFICATIONS
• Currently enrolled and working towards an undergraduate (rising junior or rising senior) or graduate degree from an accredited college/university
• Successfully manage strong academics with extracurricular activities
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint with the ability to learn new systems
• Ability to prioritize and manage competing priorities