People Ops Intern

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers.  We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000 people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

As an intern, you will be working on an agile team with other passionate, driven, and talented interns and staff to create solutions for our Early Careers Program. The Early Careers Program (ECP) was established in 2019 to significantly increase our Generation Z population – attracting them to work here, developing them, and helping them have a meaningful career at Publicis Sapient. The ECP team’s work spans corporate strategy, event management, coordination, research, recruiting, University relationships, marketing, operations, learning and development, and financial analysis.

Our team seeks summer interns to help deliver on the Early Career Program projects. You will join a small team of interns, working together on a very diverse set of activities. The work will span operations, event management, research, project management, social media, analytics, and recruiting support. You must be able to work from late May 2022 to early August 2022 and come into our office on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:
Operations (50% of your time)

Support the summer engineering/product internship program. Includes helping to onboard the engineering/product interns, helping with tech week. You will consistently be working with the Intern Program Led for your city and internal stakeholders in our offices. This will mainly involve coordinating and executing events around the engineering/product internship program over the 10-week timeframe.

Included will be:

• Assist the program lead with complicated logistics for meetings, and events, including securing location, room set-up, audio/visual needs, food, and beverage, etc.
• Take on a variety of administrative projects and day-to-day tasks including emails, projects, and meetings.
• Manage attendee lists for events and create, print, and prepare necessary items for events.
• Assist in scheduling events with executive leadership and partnerships.
• Prepare agendas and documents, collect materials, and complete research in preparation for Events Team meetings, speeches, presentations, and other events.
• Organize a system for easy archival and retrieval purposes; maintain files for regular meetings and events and provide historical information in preparation for regular meetings; manage confidential routine files.
• Escalate any red flags or issues to the Intern Program lead.

Recruiting Support (25% of your time)

• Research and find prospective students on LinkedIn, GitHub, and other platforms and add them to our Applicant Tracking System.
• Research and find campus events outside of the career fairs at targeted universities.
• Find and help us engage with student groups on campuses.
• Help plan and prepare for university virtual and in-person career fairs in the fall.

Strategy Special Projects (25% of your time)
You will be given 1-2 research or strategy topics to work on throughout the internship that aligns with your interests and the company’s need.

Examples:

• Marketing and Social Media- help evolve Publicis Sapient’s social media strategy should be to attract interest in the company and promote working here with Gen Z.
• Research studies that are focused on Gen Z’s needs and interests could include surveys, focus groups you lead, interviews you conduct, and secondary research sources.
• Impact on COVID-19 on student recruitment and job placement
• Current economic trends and the impact on the job market
• Student groups on campus and their role in recruitment and company awareness
• Neuroplasticity and Gen Z’s digital native abilities
• Diversity and Inclusion and Gen Z’s expectations and needs
• Competitor analysis on other college recruiting and development programs

What you will gain:
You will gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the company. You will also get hands-on exposure to a digital business transformation consulting company and learn about the business. Interns receive training as well as frequent coaching and mentoring from a dedicated member of the ECP team. This support includes introductory training as well as needed training throughout the summer.
You will also be able to attend all of the leadership presentations, lunch and learns, and social events that the Engineering/Computer Science internship program receives.
You will get the opportunity to present your research project to senior executives in the firm.

Qualifications

• Graduate Students/Undergraduate rising junior or senior
• Great communication skills
• Strong project management and operational aptitude with the ability to managing multiple projects and initiatives
• 3rd / 4th year student working towards a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Communications, Sociology, Economics, Business, Marketing, or other related degree
• Available for an 10 week internship
• Available to work 40 hours per week
• Self-starters who are results-oriented, resourceful, analytical, innovative, intellectually curious and who take initiative and risks
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Demonstrate strong ability to embrace and adapt to change, take initiative and showcase curiosity, learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Experience and proficient in Microsoft office tools/programs
• Previous work experience, clubs, volunteerism or internships is a plus
• Experience in project management/event management is a plus

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.