2023 Consultant Summer Intern - Commercial (Rolling Intake)

About IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 171 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, by trust businessman Charles Ranlett Flint, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. IBM is incorporated in New York. IBM produces and sells computer hardware, middleware, and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a major research organization, holding the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business (as of 2021) for 29 consecutive years.

Your Role

• Join our IBM North America intern community and meet other IBMers during networking events, special team events, and career development activities
• Participate in a consulting project or initiative and experience first-hand how we help transform their business
• Focus on our client's technical and business needs to co-create solutions that add value
• Work collaboratively to deliver innovative solutions for clients
• Develop an understanding of our client’s future state goals and processes, then define the steps needed and leading technologies to help turn their goals into reality
• Learn about a client’s industry, tackle new challenges, and learn about how their business and technology intersect.

Training, Development & Rotations

Enhance employee engagement and productivity, reskill your workforce faster, and reimagine ways of working to become an adaptive, skills-based, and AI-powered organization. Maintaining a competitive edge in a dynamic economy demands faster innovation. Your challenge is having the right people with the right skills and tools to drive digital transformation. The IBM training and certifications allow you to earn credentials to demonstrate your expertise. It is designed to validate your skills and capability to perform role-related tasks and activities at a specified level of competence.

Compensation & benefits

IBM offers a competitive benefits program, designed to support you and your family across all dimensions of health: physical, mental, social, financial, and purpose. 

• Health Benefits Portfolio provides strong support for your well-being and preventive care, comprehensive coverage to meet a range of medical situations, and solid protection against the cost of serious injury or illness.
• Retirement Program that helps build future financial security through a leading-edge 401(k) plan and other capital accumulation programs.
• Income Protection in case of serious illness, injury, or death, including life insurance and disability benefits.
• Opportunity to follow leisure pursuits through vacation, personal leave, and holiday plans.

The estimated total pay for Consultants at IBM ranges from $88,000 to $148,000 per year.

Career Progression

IBM Career paths have been designed based on relevant market research and valuable insights of industry experts. The curricula provide proof of learning and are supposed to be done ideally on top of the regular academic program. The content is provided by industry leaders, leaders by educators, and industry partners, and adopted by academic institutions globally. Our team has worked with industry experts to provide insights on careers that are taking over the job market. The course content is aligned with this market research, which is updated regularly to ensure our material stays relevant to the needs of the industry. All career paths are comprised of globally recognized academic exams towards the end of the training. These exams are linked to an Open Badge, which our students or faculty can share on any of our online social media accounts.

Work-Life Balance

Work-Life Balance (23%): About 41% of the employees at IBM work eight hours or less, while 24% of them have a very long day - longer than twelve hours. The majority of IBM employees are satisfied with their work-life and do not feel burnt out.

Culture & vibe

IBM's organizational culture has the advantage of motivating employees to creatively approach problems and challenges. Such creativity, based on radical thinking, is a key success factor in the information technology business.

About You 

• Assist with Cloud migration and system application implementation or upgrades (such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Workday, and Salesforce)
• Run or support workshops, meetings, and stakeholder interviews
• Document requirements from product owners/ business leads
• Translate client requirements into analytical specifications for the implementation of IBM solutions
• Define current and future operational scenarios (processes, models, use cases, plans, and solutions)
• Work with clients using an agreed methodology to ensure proper translation of business requirements to solution requirements
• Develop communications tailored to specific audiences
• Work in Agile, collaborative environments
• Use IBM’s Design Thinking to help solve client’s challenges
• Analyze data to support conclusions and strategies, and design organization
• Can understand clients’ needs and challenges and apply a creative and logical approach to identify solutions
• Demonstrate quantitative analysis skills and ability to derive recommendations informed by data and insights
• Can work on multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands
• Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply by listening actively and conveying difficult messages in a positive manner
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and work effectively with individuals, strengthening relationships to achieve win-win solutions
• A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view
• Can translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Demonstrate leadership experience and ability to adapt, with a willingness to readily take ownership of tasks and problems
• Have the initiative to actively seek new knowledge and improve skills

How to Apply

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Sources

• glassdoor.com
• youtube.com
• careers.ibm.com