Internship Opportunity in People Analytics at Google in the United States

Google is offering an internship opportunity in the People Analytics field in the summer of 2020 in the United States. This internship provides the opportunity to join a team of creative Google employees and learn more about the technology industry, as well as personal and professional development opportunities. The intern will work with a group of social scientists who conduct experimental, survey and archival research to inform people-related business decisions. Example content areas include, but are not limited to decision-making, diversity and inclusion, leadership, employee well-being, hiring, personality, longitudinal data analyses, and social networks. The recruitment team will choose the appropriate place for the applicant based on his CV and the preferences indicated in the application form.

Note: duration and start date of internship vary depending on the position.

Minimum qualifications:

• Advanced Doctoral (Ph.D.) student (i.e., you have completed three years of study and your comprehensive exams but have not completed your dissertation) who is enrolled in a program in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology or a related field.
• Experience designing, developing and conducting a rigorous survey and/or experimental research.
• Experience analyzing and manipulating data in R, SPSS, STATA and/or other statistical languages.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience conducting applied research in organizations.
• Experience with statistical analysis, including fundamentals (e.g., ANOVAs and/or regressions) and with one or more advanced approaches (e.g., factor analysis, network analysis, HLM, SEM).
• Experience using R for statistical analysis and data visualization.
• Topical expertise in one of the following areas: individual and team-level performance and productivity, individual differences (e.g., personality traits, behaviors, well-being), diversity and inclusion, selection and assessment, decision science and behavior change and/or quantitative text analysis.
• Returning to a degree program after the internship ends.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the People Analytics team to design and implement new studies, analyze data and report on results of research initiatives to a business audience.
• Conduct advanced statistical analysis (e.g., correlation, regression, factor analysis, T-test, ANOVA, SEM, HLM, LASSO, random forests) using survey and archival data with analyses ideally conducted in R.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to influence leaders to take action on the results.
• Write research briefs.

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