Research Analyst Graduate Intern, Remote, Summer/Fall 2024

 

About The Role & Program

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The People Research team is a part of the The Walt Disney Company People Insights department, crafted to deliver data insights that drive and inform long-term HR strategy through:

  • Delivering high quality consultation, products and services for people analytics
  • Deeply understanding the sentiment of our employees, leaders and candidates along with external research and industry trends
  • Enabling data driven people decisions for our businesses and talent strategies

What You Will Do

The Research Analyst Graduate Intern is responsible for supporting The Walt Disney Company’s research strategies through research and analysis of current workplace trends. This includes the locating, reading, analyzing, and summarizing of literature as well as validating the literature’s sources across academia, practice, and pop culture.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Capture requirements for key research topics
  • Search and scan available literature and research on these topics
  • Read and critically analyze each item
  • Collate all research and identify the strongest themes
  • Summarize all these and their relationship to the original research topic request
  • Build summary presentations as needed
  • Present and explain findings to key peer and client groups
  • Proactively identify ways to improve research approaches, tools, and methods

Required Qualifications & Skills

 

  • Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
  • Proven storytelling/presentation skills
  • Solid attention to detail
  • Expertise with Excel, PowerPoint and Word
  • High degree of initiative and creativity
  • Ability to handle highly confidential information
  • Previous work experience

Preferred Qualifications

 

  • Formal training and experience in general analysis and research methodologies
  • Experience with exploratory and descriptive research methodologies
  • Demonstrable ability to summarize and explain sophisticated concepts in an easy to understand format
  • Familiarity with search tools for both general and academic articles/summaries

Education

  • A student pursuing a masters degree or PhD in Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Human Resources or a closely related field

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:

  • Must be enrolled in an accredited college/university taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program OR must have graduated from a college/university within 6 months OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Professional Internship
  • Must be at least 18 years of age
  • Must not have completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or program
  • Must possess unrestricted work authorization

Additional Information

  • The approximate dates of this internship are June 2024 – January 2025
  • Candidate must be available to work full time hours (approximately 40 hours per week) for the duration of the internship
  • This internship is a remote position – Requires a working, reliable internet connection as well as a quiet, dedicated workspace.

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