Gerson Lehrman Group www.glgroup.com (GLG) is a fast-growing technology and services company which, since 1998, has been driving dramatic changes in the business information, consulting, and expert network industry.
Requirements
Interns must be fluent in English and French and must be able to hold business conversations over the phone in that language.
Intern tasks and acknowledgements
• Council Management interns will spend the majority of their time building and managing the GLG Councils. You must be able to communicate the mission and policies of GLG in a concise, effective manner and be able to do so in a foreign language (please read more about this below). You will also work on customized recruiting projects and requests from the Research Management teams including the following:
• Learn our expert management and search systems and begin communicating actively via telephone with our experts to leverage referrals o Master the communication skills required to identify and recruit new experts into the network and develop consulting relationships which will be valuable to our clients
• Assist GLG team members in responding to and addressing Council Member and client inquiries, which may include conducting web-based research on important news stories for a practice area, identifying executives in transition, responding to Council Member inquiries, and reviving relationships with Council Members whose activity with GLG has lapsed.
• You must be extremely organized, very detail-oriented, and highly professional in all written and oral communications.
• All interns at Gerson Lehrman Group should have extensive writing experience. Interns will be expected to quickly and effectively communicate a range of simple and complex material. Interns should have written for a school publication, published technical or scientific material, worked on a news desk or had similar experience in their academic curriculum.
• Candidates should be able to demonstrate a track record of success in their extracurricular activities or academic career.
Send your cv and cover letter to: ejouan@glgroup.com to apply no later than 30 dec 2009, starting date is flexible.
