Intern - KFI Outcomes/Data Analytics (Finance)

About Us

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.

Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core solutions:

• Organizational Strategy
• Assessment and Succession
• Talent Acquisition
• Leadership Development
• Total Rewards

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Job description

OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR CAREER

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 opportunities 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 students who are graduating in the Spring/Summer 2026 from an accredited academic institution, as well as candidates earning post graduate degrees. This is a hybrid role and requires someone to be onsite at the Minneapolis office 3 days per week.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The intern will join others to conduct the ongoing outcome/impact research:

• Reviewing both academic and practical publications for methods of outcome measurement
• Identifying different types of performance indicators
• Building outcome/impact measurement frameworks for different solution areas
• Communicating and soliciting feedback from stakeholders in different solution areas
• Exploring quantitative and qualitative data from public and/or commercial resources
• Working with the research team on research design and data collection method
• Organizing and formatting data appropriately for different analytical tools and procedures
• Linking performance data with assessment data and/or interventions
• Performing basic analysis to demonstrate the impact of assessments and/or interventions on individual and organizational success
• Reporting and communicating results to people within and outside of the research team
• Documenting the work for replicable findings

Qualifications

• Pursuing an undergraduate or master's degree in one of the following majors: psychology, economics, human resource management, statistics or data science. Must be graduating in Spring/Summer 2026 to be eligible.
• Skills in data management and statistical tools are preferred.
• Experience in desk research, data collection and mining are preferred.
• Successfully manage strong academics with extracurricular activities
• Ability to communicate and present ideas
• Ability to prioritize and manage competing priorities

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Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry

If you currently work for Korn Ferry or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Korn Ferry to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with your HR contact for the new position concerning application eligibility, including any immigration/visa needs, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.

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Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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