International internship at the Institute of Business intelligence

Professional level up in 3 months

Working with data is boring and difficult. Many specialists who have to deal with reports think so. BUT IT ISN’T! I can show you how interesting, fascinating and beautiful it is. And how such work benefits the business, and for an analyst it is recognition and career growth.

As the head of the Institute of Business Intelligence, twice a year I conduct a 3-month internship for those who work with corporate reporting. And this year an international internship is being launched in English. For everyone who needs analytics and data visualization skills for business. Acceptance of applications opens on June 11.

• For managers and novice analysts to confidently enter the profession and take their place in it.
• For experienced analysts to improve their professional level and gain experience in the project team.

I warn you that it’s not easy. It’s one thing to take courses, but it’s quite another to solve real business problems.

What you need to get an internship

• If you work with reporting, but you want it to be clear and understandable, you are ready for this.
• If your English level is Intermediate or higher, you are ready for it.
• If you want and can devote 8–10 hours a week to an internship, you are definitely ready for it.

But! If you are just curious, and you are not ready to invest in the work, please do not come. It won’t be possible to hold out for a long time anyway: we deduct for unfulfilled work and absenteeism. Because the goal is to graduate only strong business analysts.

What you can learn in 3 months

Usually, this amount of knowledge and skills takes at least a year. We get results faster because it’s not just learning. There will be no useless theory and long conversations — this is real work “in the field”. With real tasks and requirements:

• working with data that the customer usually has;
• solving business problems using data visualization;
• working with customer requirements and solution options;
• building communication and presenting your project.

The rest will be better told by those who have completed the internship from beginning to end. Here are some reviews:

“This is 3 months of invaluable experience that will decorate my resume. I have something to tell and something to be proud of. Now I’m not really a yellow-faced youth! I am very grateful for this opportunity, I think this is a super project”. Nataly

“I am very glad that I managed to get into this internship. Thank you for your energy, responsiveness and constructive criticism! I learned useful tricks and insights, learned how to analyze works and improve them. All this helped to eliminate shortcomings in data visualization work and to approach the search and systematization of data sources more efficiently”. Alex

“The program has always kept in good shape, but at the same time, in a short period of time, we managed to get as much useful information as possible. I understood how to build the creation of applications from collecting information to its presentation”. Kate

How is the internship going

We accept applications from June 11. On the 15th of June you will receive a test task. Already on June 25, I will hold the first training webinar, and after it I will immediately give the task. For the first 3 weeks, it will be free training for everyone, so that everyone can appreciate how interesting and useful it is.

Test task. Before admission, trainees undergo a test selection. The task is simple — it is necessary to weed out the “extra” people. You can do it in any BI platform, in Excel and even in PowerPoint.

Weekly classes. On Saturdays we conduct webinars for 1.5−2 hours. These are retrospectives of real projects of the Institute of Business Analytics, at each lesson — analysis of a specific topic and development of new skills.

Interesting vacancies. From the middle of the internship, we invite employers to weekly meetings who are looking for new analysts to join their team right now. They will tell you about their vacancies and tasks and invite those who wish to participate in the selection.

Practical tasks. After each webinar interns receive tasks for independent work. The purpose of these tasks is to help the manager get clear answers from the data.

Corseworks. At the end of each month, the course papers are defended: it depends on whether the intern will be admitted to the next stage of the program.

Scholarship. Interns who have successfully defended their term papers are rewarded for good work.

Graduation projects. The last month of the internship is dedicated to them. For example, last summer interns made dashboards for charities. Of course, for free. So that each of the “ordinary people” knows a little more about the work of the funds. To make this work more transparent. And that we all want to support her. And the funds were helped, and the skills were worked out — everyone wins.

The full internship program is available on the website of the Institute of Business Intelligence.

Who am I and how are my skills useful?

I am the director of the Institute of Business Intelligence and a “playing coach”. Since 2009, together with my team, I have been implementing BI, ERP, BPM, CRM systems in industry, trade, finance and the public sector. Since 2015, I have been teaching analyticsI and data visualization.

I taught MBA programs in the USA (Florida Atlantic University, Key West University) and Russia. Wrote the book “Dashboard for the director”, which gained its popularity in the business environment. I speak at professional conferences, write articles about working with data and data-based management in business and economics.

The part about who I am, let it remain the shortest. The main thing is not me, but the knowledge and skills that I can share. And I can. Thousands of students and dozens of internship graduates will confirm this.

I don’t know if I will repeat this “international” experiment in the coming years, but for now I can use it. Especially since it’s free.

Submit an application: https://alexkolokolov.com/en/internship