Maybe you’re a political junkie and love watching the mud fly, but we’ve been sick of this election since it’s started. Little tiny details get blown out of proportion, and things that should be a big deal are often ignored. The media is constantly measuring and analyzing the effect of these mini-controversies on voter sentiment by loosely interpreting poll data to fit their pre-conceived notions. We must be alone in our political fatigue, because the appetite for up to the second information appears to be constantly growing. With so much new information coming out every day, the need (for the media at least) to keep the pulse of the nation has never been greater. That means that for the next half-year you’ll be hearing the name Gallup day in and day out.
Gallup is in the business of studying how people behave. They’ve collected the best minds in management, economics, psychology, and sociology to help them provide customers with “measurement tools, coursework, and strategic advisory services.” Polling is a major part of what Gallup does, and this is most evident in the political arena; however, their business goes far beyond letting the world know how voters react when they find that their favorite candidate picks his or her nose. Gallup has built up significant competencies at measuring human sentiments at all levels – world, national, local, and organizational. This allows them to provide unique consulting services based on data that is often difficult for other firms to quantify. Some areas in which Gallup focuses their services include: Strengths-Based Development, Talent Management, Developing Great Managers, Workplace and Employee Engagement, and Customer Engagement. They also work with clients in Executive Performance Coaching, Sales Force Effectiveness, Performance Strategy, Performance Reward and Compensation, Succession Management, Performance Evaluation and Development, Brand Management, and Marketing Research
The thing that jumped out at us from Gallup’s core business was Employee Engagement. If a company is going to pride themselves on measuring how employees feel, they better be doing a great job of engaging their own employees. Gallup probably would have liked to cite themselves, but instead they had to go to the Vault to brag that they rank “#1 for corporate culture and work-life balance, and as #2 for overall quality of life” in a survey of consultants from top firms. Heck, Gallup probably would have given themselves their Great Workplace Award, if it wouldn’t look like a conflict of interest. Either way, Gallup is focused on treating their talent well, and that means that you should be looking at some really strong internships.
Typically, internships at Gallup are part-time (15-25 hours a week) during the school year, and full-time over the Summer; however, there are some exceptions to this. A few have deadlines of April 20th, most are in Lincoln or Omaha, NE, and all are paid. Here’s what we found listed: Accounting Internship, Applications Developer Intern, IT Manager Intern, Java Developer Intern, Early Childhood Teacher Internship, Management Development Internship, Management Development Internship, Microsoft .NET Developer Intern, and Technical Project Administrator Intern. To check for new internships, you can search Gallup’s Job Openings.
Gallup’s overall website and Careers site in particular are really nice. They look good, they’re easy to navigate, and are extremely informative (they’re even nice enough to be upfront and tell international students that they’re out of luck when it comes to sponsorship – most companies ignore the fact completely). They even have a well thought out Campus Recruiting page. The site is really approachable, and it’s easy to get a sense of the types of opportunities Gallup offers and what it’s like to work for them.
Unfortunately Gallup fails to segue from this elegant portrayal of information to their job listings. The only option is to use their Job search, which leaves job seekers confused about what opportunities to search for. It’s not all that bad for internships, since the keyword “internship” will give you the results that you want, but it’s exceedingly hard to identify Gallup’s entry-level jobs. Gallup says that they are working on a new campus recruiting site, which hopefully will address this problem. Otherwise, we think that they’ve done a great job of presenting themselves online, so we hope that they don’t change too much.
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