Opportunity brief
About InternKhojo
InternKhojo is a career-focused technology platform designed to connect students and emerging talent with meaningful internship and career opportunities.
As we build and scale our platform, understanding the evolving talent, recruitment, internship, and career-tech ecosystem is critical to making informed strategic decisions.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly analytical intern to join our Market Intelligence & Competitive Strategy function.
The role involves conducting structured research across the internship, recruitment, career-tech, HR-tech, and student ecosystem to understand market dynamics, competitor strategies, business models, monetization approaches, product positioning, and emerging opportunities.
Your research will be used to support strategic planning and business decisions across InternKhojo.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and monitor direct, indirect, and emerging competitors.
- Conduct detailed competitive intelligence across relevant platforms and businesses.
- Analyze competitor products, features, positioning, and user experience.
- Map complete student and recruiter workflows across competing platforms.
- Analyze how competitors acquire students, companies, recruiters, and other stakeholders.
- Research business models and monetization strategies.
- Analyze publicly available pricing, subscriptions, commissions, advertising, premium offerings, and other revenue streams.
- Study competitor marketing, content, partnerships, community, and distribution strategies.
- Track product launches, feature changes, partnerships, funding activity, and significant market developments.
- Research competitor target segments and value propositions.
- Identify competitive advantages, weaknesses, gaps, and differentiation opportunities.
- Conduct broader market research across recruitment, internships, HR-tech, career-tech, and related sectors.
- Identify emerging trends, business opportunities, and potential threats.
- Develop structured competitor benchmarking frameworks.
- Maintain comprehensive research databases and intelligence reports.
- Convert research findings into concise, actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
- Present findings in a structured format to support business and product decisions.
Key Research Areas
The role may cover:
- Competitive Intelligence
- Market Trends
- Business Models
- Revenue & Monetization
- Pricing Strategy
- Product Strategy
- Customer Acquisition
- User Acquisition
- Growth Channels
- Partnerships
- Product Positioning
- Customer Segmentation
- Market Gaps
- Competitive Advantage
- Emerging Companies
- Industry Developments
What We Look For
- Exceptional curiosity and research ability.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to go beyond surface-level information.
- Strong internet research and information-verification skills.
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of information into clear conclusions.
- Strong proficiency with Google Sheets/Excel.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Ability to identify patterns and derive actionable insights.
- Comfortable working independently and managing research projects.
Preferred Backgrounds
Students from Business, Economics, Management, Engineering, Commerce, Computer Science, Statistics, or related disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Prior exposure to consulting, business analysis, market research, competitive intelligence, product strategy, or startup environments is an advantage.
Why This Role
This role provides exposure to competitive intelligence, business strategy, market analysis, product strategy, and monetization models.
Your work will go beyond collecting information. The objective is to transform research into insights that can influence product, growth, and business strategy.
