Company Overview:
A career at ……. is an opportunity to work with remarkable people, help shape the growth of the Middle East and its most important institutions and learn and grow constantly.
We partner with leaders to accelerate growth, build businesses and organizations, and nurture young talent.
Since 1957, we have helped the region unlock growth and development, build champions in major industries, and nurture the talent of the next generation. The work of all eight of our locations is underpinned by our deep local roots, global reach, and unrivaled investment in knowledge.
Who You’ll Work Witht
Business Analysts join our Middle East Office to work in teams and directly with our clients.
When you join as a Business Analyst (BA), you are joining a firm that will challenge you and invest heavily in your professional development. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on teams and help the best organizations in the world – across the private, public, and social sectors – solve some of their most difficult problems. You will also work with a range of experts in the firm, from data scientists to researchers to software and app designers.
What You’ll Do
You’ll work in teams of typically 3 – 5 consultants, playing an active role in all aspects of the client engagement.
This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations. You’ll also have the opportunity to present results to client management and implement recommendations in collaboration with client team members.
You’ll gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the firm. Business Analysts receive exceptional training as well as frequent coaching and mentoring from colleagues on their teams. This support includes a Partner from your local office or practice assigned to you to help guide your career as well as several weeks of formal training in your first two years as a Business Analyst.
Additionally, you’ll receive guidance and support from your local office in the selection of client projects, helping you to develop your skills and build your network.
We view the Business Analyst position as the start of a rewarding, challenging, and highly flexible career. During your first few years with the firm, you will serve as a BA on multiple client engagements and work with a number of colleagues and clients in a range of industry and functional areas.
For all BAs, you will likely intersect with many elements of our firm’s work including Digital, Implementation, and tech and analytics capabilities – either by collaborating on teams or working with colleagues from these group.
Answer the following questions:
- A brief description of why you want to participate in the internship program? and how it will add to your future career goals?
- What do you think makes you a unique candidate? (min. 300 words) *
- How would this program help you meet your career and academic goals?
- Talk about yourself and your interest in the field
From the Resume and the information above about the internship. - Describe any relevant experiences and projects you have completed in your field of interest.
Master project: was about language and gender in Saudi Arabia specifically about identity construction of women through speech. I did this project in less than a year where there is little literature about this topic in Saudi Arabia. I worked on the project using language and gender, discourse analysis. This project is among the first to closely look at young Saudi women who are linguistically constructing their identity. I used a discourse analysis approach and discovered features that characterize the speech of women across different settings. This project – translated over 300 pages of speech. transcribed audio and phonetically. Analyzed as well.
Brief Information about linguistics:
This degree has provided me with a strong background in many aspects. The study of linguistics is essentially the study of human language. Grammar: the study of language structure and the system of rules it uses. It includes several fields as follows. Morphology: the study of the formation of words. Syntax: the study of the formation and composition of these words into phrases and sentences. Phonology: the study of sound systems. Phonetics is a related field concerned with the properties, production, and perception of speech and non-speech sounds. Semantics: the study of word meaning. Historical linguistics: the study of language evolution over time. Sociolinguistics: the study of how language is used in society. Linguistics addresses addressing all the functions of language. One must determine the grammar being used, the meaning of the words as individual components, as well as the phrases and sentences they create, how those phrases are placed in time and history, and so forth. A linguistics background is an advantage for a bilingual. Linguists study the semantic, syntactic and stylistic differences between languages, as well as the relations between language and culture. This knowledge helps a linguist to understand the issues involved in trying to express equivalent meanings in two languages.
Skills gained after studying linguistics:
Think critically
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze problems, both linguistic and otherwise, and to find and critically evaluate alternative solutions
Write effectively
• Demonstrate the ability to present ideas in effectively written form
Research
• Demonstrate the ability to find in textbooks and research materials, the kinds of information relevant to a given problem or issue, linguistic or otherwise, and to integrate that information into one’s own written work to support one’s argument while giving appropriate credit to the source of the information
Knowledge of linguistics subdisciplines
• Have a working knowledge of the subdisciplines of linguistics dealing with the organization of language, i.e., phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics
• Have a working knowledge of the subdisciplines of linguistics dealing with language use, change and acquisition, especially sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and psycholinguistics
Excellent understanding of the issues involved in communication across languages and cultures
Students who major in linguistics acquire valuable intellectual skills, such as analytical reasoning, critical thinking, argumentation, and clarity of expression. This means making insightful observations, formulating clear, testable hypotheses, generating predictions, making arguments and drawing conclusions, and communicating findings to a wider community. Linguistics majors are therefore well equipped for a variety of graduate-level and professional programs and careers.
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