Research Intern, Avention Inc., Concord MA

Posted April 16, 2014

General Description

Avention Inc. delivers prospect and business intelligence information on millions of companies and executives worldwide — optimizing clients’ sales and marketing efforts and assisting with business-to-business research activities. Avention (formerly OneSource Information Services) combines and organizes content from over 50 world-class suppliers and supports over 70 unique data fields, providing unparalleled data accuracy and information depth.

Avention is seeking a Research Intern for summer 2014 in our Concord, MA office. This position is primarily responsible for improving the tagging and retrieval of news and related textual content.

Job Requirements

• Assist Content Managers in reviewing the effectiveness of text extraction and tagging across focus lists of US and global companies.
• Intelligently construct and execute free-text searches against comparable content sets to evaluate the accuracy and completeness of automated tagging and extraction.
• Specify and capture justification for proposed changes to company tagging profiles.
• Assist with ad hoc research in response to sales and customer questions.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent research, data organization, and Boolean search skills
• Ability to organize and analyze data and to clearly communicate findings to others.
• Strong working knowledge and experience with MS Office.
• High level of comfort with a technology-driven, fast-paced environment.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required and completion of first year in MLS program is preferred.
• Relevant work experience and knowledge of business information sources are pluses.

We hope you make the decision to join us by submitting your cover letter and resume to [email protected].