Internship Consultancy

Consultancy is a field that combines expertise with business acumen. Consultants help companies make strategic decisions on how to improve their business. They can be used for many different purposes, such as integrating systems and processes, improving management capabilities and advising on new business opportunities. During a consultancy internship, you will probably work directly with different clients from your organisation to solve specific business problems. 

Consultancy firms usually put consultants in teams of four to six people to work on a particular project. There is usually one manager leading the day-to-day work and a number of analysts and consultants. A consulting partner guides the team at a high level by using his expertise in a particular sector or function. So during your consulting internship, you will work a lot in teams on different projects.

Many jobs in consultancy often require a university education. In addition, most consultancy jobs can be found in the Randstad region. Are you a student at the Erasmus Universiteit Whether the UVA, then this offers nice future prospects.

Below, we will explore some of the many different areas that consultants can focus on and that you are also likely to encounter during your consultancy internship.

Internship HR Consultancy

HR consultancy is a broad term that covers a whole range of services. It can help with recruitment, retention, training and development. In addition to these core tasks, HR consultants can also be involved in organisational change initiatives. For example, they help employees within companies understand how their roles will change as the company grows or shrinks. You will therefore see a lot of external consultants at work in companies that are reorganising. 

Internship IT Consultancy

IT consultants can work with clients to solve problems in various technical areas. Think of software development or the implementation and security of new IT systems. It is then much more effective for companies to hire specialist consultants who know how certain software works, rather than setting it up themselves. 

IT-consultants zijn specialisten op het gebied van informatietechnologie en zij werken samen met bedrijven om hen te helpen met hun IT-infrastructuur. Zij geven vaak advies over de beste nieuwe IT-systemen en bieden ook technische ondersteuning. 

Internship Management Consultancy

There are different types of management consultants. Management consulting is a profession that provides advice to organisations on how to improve their processes. Management consultants work with managers to improve the performance of their organisations. This can be strategic, organisational or financial. There are many management consulting companies in the Netherlands because there is a high demand for bright minds within companies. Well-known examples are PWC, Deloitte, KPMG & EY.  

Management consultants are usually hired by boards of directors to advise them directly on the best way to achieve their organisation's objectives.

You can do a consultancy internship during your Bachelor as a collaborative internship or at the end of your studies as a graduation internship. In the latter case, you will do a graduation internship in consultancy. You are often engaged in research, which is why it is sometimes called a consultancy research internship. At Fiks, we distinguish between a graduate internship and a research internship. If you can or want to work during your internship in your final year, this is called a graduation internship. If you have to do pure research for your thesis or dissertation, we call it a research internship. Fortunately, we can help you find graduate internships or research internships consultancy!

Consultancy trainees can help with a wide range of issues. They may be asked to advise on education, finance, workplace issues, IT and management. During a consultant internship, you usually work in a team with other consultants and analysts, who all look at a problem from different perspectives.

Via Fiks it is possible to find a consultancy internship. There are always internships in this field with us online at super interesting companies, both big and small. Take a quick look to see if there is anything of interest. Because consultancy is so broad, we also want to take a personal look. We do that through WhatsApp and this is completely free of charge. All we need from you is that you tell us what you are looking for, and we will get right into action! 

Want to look at other categories too? Then take a look at internships related to operations or process optimisation. These internships are often close but slightly different.