Cookeville native Chris King had spent very little time in Chattanooga before starting his internship with Elliott Davis last summer.
Now, thanks to the accounting firm’s seven-week program that was recently rated the best internship in the country by Vault.com, King will be moving to the area to work full time for the company in January 2019 – just a few months before he graduates from Belmont University in Nashville with a Masters of Accountancy degree.
Former Envision intern Chris King, who will be hired at the Elliott Davis Decosimo accounting firm full time, poses for a portrait in the Elliott Davis Decosimo offices on Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Chattanooga, Tenn. “They appreciate their employees,” King said about the firm. “I feel like they really roll out the red carpet for their interns.”
King was one of nine interns that went through the ENVISION internship program at the Elliott Davis location in downtown Chattanooga last summer. A recent poll of 12,000 students rated ENVISION as number one out of 100 other internship programs in the country based on five categories: quality of life, compensation and benefits, interview process, career development, and full-time employment prospects.
Vault ranks, rates and reviews thousands of top employers and hundreds of internship programs, according to its website. Throughout the program, Elliott Davis interns work on tax and audit engagements for real clients, complete an intern project, participate in community service and participate in leadership development activities.