Internship
Compensation Analyst Intern,
Textron
Tell us about your internship.
I utilize data and analytics to help develop effective and rewarding pay programs for our workforce. This includes leveraging salary surveys to design market aligned pay structures and machine learning models to evaluate the effectiveness of compensation initiatives.
What are you enjoying most about this experience?
It's been rewarding to apply my data science skills to projects that directly benefit individuals across the organization. I'm also enjoying the sense of community we have within the intern class.
What CDS courses prepared you for the internship role? Please explain.
The
DS310 "Data Mechanics" course has been vary useful in my role. I have needed to apply many of the database design concepts I learned in the course when working with unstructured datasets. In addition, the human contexts class,
DS587 "Data Science in Human Contexts", has helped me take a people centered approach to using data in the human resources field.
How did you find and obtain this internship?
I had the opportunity to meet a senior Textron leader at a Questrom event. Our conversation inspired me to apply to the company's internship program.
What tips would you offer other CDS majors to help with the internship search?
For roles you are most interested in, try to connect with someone in the hiring decision pipeline. This can be as simple as sending a LinkedIn message or cold email so they can know you as a person and not just a resume.
