Associate Intern, Korean Speaker_Hong Kong

Job description

Third Bridge is a leading global research firm established in 2007, with a team of over 1,500 employees worldwide dedicated to **fueling decisions with expert insights**. We accelerate and enhance decision-making for investors and business leaders by unearthing unique expert insights across multiple sectors, geographies, and topics. For nearly 20 years, we’ve helped clients access knowledge on demand from experts, in-person and through our Library covering over 65,000 companies. **Why Join Us?** We’re offering more than a role — we’re offering a**career launchpad**. As a Client Services Associate intern, you’ll develop the **commercial awareness**and **business acumen**that open doors to long-term careers in **sales, account management, leadership, research,**and so much more. We**promote from within**, and our top performers move into management in as little as two years. **You’ll thrive if you:** - Love **a fast-paced, target-driven** environment - Have **the confidence to pick up the phone**and start conversations with anyone - Are naturally curious, quick to learn, and love to **solve complex problems** - Build rapport fast and think on your feet - Are resilient and motivated to **exceed goals** **What You’ll Do** You’ll be at the heart of our business — finding, calling, and engaging industry experts to deliver the insights our clients need, often under extremely tight deadlines. Expect to spend much of your day on the phone, persuading specialists to share their expertise and securing their time for client calls. Day to day, you’ll: - **Expert Sourcing**: Use our internal database and external directories to identify specialists who match the client’s project requirements. - **Cold Calling & Outreach**: Proactively reach out to potential experts via phone and email, often through cold calls, to engage them for specific projects. - **Project Understanding:** Analyze client briefs to understand the expert profile needed for each project. - **Expert Engagement**: Build relationships with experts, explain the project context, and coordinate their participation through interviews, meetings, or surveys. - **Coordination & Follow-Up**: Manage all expert-related logistics, ensuring seamless communication and timely scheduling for each project. **What You’ll Gain** - **Commercial edge**: Sales, negotiation, relationship-building skills, and the opportunity to develop leadership skills very early in your career - **Client exposure:** Work with leading private equity firms, hedge funds, and consultancies Would you like to learn more about our Associate position? Take our free [virtual job simulation](https://www.theforage.com/simulations/third-bridge/client-service-i3mi) and learn what it is like to work in this role. **What you’ll need** - Native Korean and Business fluency in English. - Year 3 and Year 4, or those who recently graduated, who can commit to a full-time internship - Candidates should be able to work 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) for a minimum of 4 to 6 months - You’re**intellectually strong**, you’re **ambitious**, have **leadership or extracurricular experience**, and have shown grit through internships, work experience, or other achievements. **Additional information** **What our people love about being an Associate intern in the Korean Team(HK-based)** - Being surrounded by people who not only enjoy working with, but who also challenge and support them. - Building their career in business on a foundation of problem-solving, communication, and commercial skills - Living by “great minds think differently” in a diverse and inclusive team. The successful candidate must, by the start of employment, have permission to work in the country in which they are applying. Third Bridge values your trust and is committed to the responsible management, use, and protection of personal information. By submitting a Third Bridge job application, I hereby provide Third Bridge (including Third Bridge's affiliates and relevant third-party suppliers) with my consent to collect, store and process my personal information for the purpose of recruitment administration, as well as to share such personal information with third parties for the same purpose, in accordance with the **[Candidate Privacy Notice.](https://www.thirdbridge.com/en-us/about-us/compliance/policies/candidate-privacy-notice)** We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway, and we will be happy to consider your application.