HR Intern (Unpaid)

About the Role

Purple Business is an emerging AI startup building an intelligent business growth platform. They are seeking a proactive, organized, and people-oriented Human Resources (HR) & Talent Acquisition Intern to help recruit talent, build a strong team, and manage day-to-day people operations. This role offers a hands-on opportunity to experience team building, recruitment, organization, and management in an early-stage startup.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruitment & Talent Acquisition:
• Understand hiring needs across technical, design, marketing, sales, and operational roles.
• Work with founders and team leads to identify staffing requirements and candidate profiles.
• Source potential candidates through LinkedIn, Internshala, job portals, college networks, and referrals.
• Review resumes, portfolios, LinkedIn profiles, and applications to shortlist candidates.
• Conduct initial candidate screening based on skills, experience, availability, and role requirements.
• Coordinate interviews, follow-ups, assessments, and selection processes.
• Maintain a pipeline of potential candidates for current and future positions.
• Job Description Creation & Job Posting:
• Understand expectations, responsibilities, and required skills for open positions.
• Write job descriptions in collaboration with founders and hiring managers.
• Create role-specific screening questions, application forms, and evaluation criteria.
• Publish and manage job openings across LinkedIn, Internshala, college communities, and hiring platforms.
• Optimize job descriptions and recruitment strategies.
• Track job posting performance, application volume, candidate quality, and conversion rates.
• Candidate Screening & Interview Coordination:
• Evaluate applications and shortlist candidates.
• Review candidate portfolios, previous work, projects, and relevant experience.
• Conduct preliminary HR screening conversations.
• Schedule interviews between candidates, founders, and team leads.
• Communicate interview schedules, responsibilities, and selection outcomes to candidates.
• Maintain recruitment records, interview feedback, and candidate status updates.
• Ensure timely and professional candidate communication.
• Team Management & People Operations:
• Support Purple Business's growing team of 10–20+ interns and contributors.
• Maintain communication with team members regarding progress, availability, challenges, and concerns.
• Conduct periodic individual check-ins and collect feedback.
• Coordinate with team leads on team engagement, workload, and collaboration.
• Track onboarding status, team responsibilities, availability, and work commitments.
• Identify communication gaps, unresolved concerns, and team management issues.
• Help create a positive, collaborative, accountable, and productive remote working environment.
• Escalate concerns to founders and relevant team leads.
• Employee & Intern Onboarding:
• Coordinate onboarding for new interns and team members.
• Prepare and manage offer letters, internship agreements, onboarding documents, and HR records.
• Explain role expectations, reporting structures, communication guidelines, and company policies.
• Help new members connect with managers, teams, and work platforms.
• Ensure new joiners understand Purple Business's vision, products, and team structure.
• Maintain onboarding checklists and monitor new member transitions.
• HR Documentation & Operations:
• Maintain organized records of team members, roles, joining dates, and documentation.
• Track internship timelines, renewals, completion dates, and offboarding requirements.
• Coordinate preparation of internship completion certificates and experience letters.
• Maintain internal HR trackers, recruitment dashboards, and employee directories.
• Help establish HR processes, documentation standards, and communication workflows.
• Handle candidate and employee information responsibly and confidentially.
• Team Engagement & Internal Communication:
• Maintain communication channels between founders, team leads, and team members.
• Organize regular team check-ins, feedback sessions, and internal meetings.
• Recognize individual contributions, achievements, and team milestones.
• Encourage collaboration between teams.
• Collect team feedback and recommend process improvements.
• Identify ways to improve motivation, participation, satisfaction, and team engagement.
• Support initiatives that strengthen team culture.
• HR Strategy & Process Improvement:
• Plan future hiring requirements with founders.
• Develop recruitment pipelines, screening processes, and onboarding workflows.
• Research effective hiring practices for early-stage startups.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment efficiency and candidate experience.
• Help define team structures, reporting relationships, and role responsibilities.
• Analyze recruitment metrics.
• Suggest improvements for productivity, communication, and team coordination.
• AI-Powered HR & Recruitment:
• Use AI tools such as ChatGPT and other recruitment productivity tools for job description writing, candidate research, interview preparation, and HR documentation.
• Explore AI-assisted workflows for resume organization, application summaries, candidate communication, and recruitment tracking.
• Help automate repetitive administrative tasks with human oversight.
• Ensure hiring decisions are fair, relevant, and based on appropriate candidate information.
• Identify opportunities to improve HR processes through responsible use of AI.

Requirements

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Interest in human resources, recruitment, talent acquisition, and people management.
• Ability to understand different job roles and identify suitable candidate profiles.
• Comfortable reviewing applications, shortlisting candidates, and coordinating interviews.
• Good written communication skills for drafting job descriptions, emails, and professional messages.
• Familiarity with LinkedIn, Internshala, and other recruitment platforms.
• Ability to manage multiple hiring processes and maintain accurate records.
• Comfortable communicating regularly with a team of 10–20+ members.
• Professionalism, discretion, and ability to handle confidential information.
• Proactive problem-solving skills and willingness to take ownership.
• Previous HR experience is preferred but not mandatory.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with recruitment, campus hiring, or coordinating student teams.
• Familiarity with Google Sheets, Excel, Trello, Notion, or other team management tools.
• Experience writing job descriptions or managing job postings.
• Familiarity with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and recruitment pipelines.
• Knowledge of basic HR operations, onboarding, and employee engagement.
• Experience using AI tools to improve recruitment workflows.
• Interest in startups, entrepreneurship, and organizational development.