Talent Acquisition Intern - Founder's Office

The Test Tribe; Pune District; On-site; INR 112,000 - 223,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Founder access

Real ownership

Tools provided

Office in Baner

Job summary

The Test Tribe in Pune (Baner) is seeking a Talent Acquisition intern to work directly with the founder and leadership on open roles across Business Development, Community, Founder's Office, and Operations.

You will compress 2 years of recruiting learning into 3-6 months, sourcing daily via LinkedIn, Naukri, Internshala and more, running first-pass screens, and owning the recruiting funnel end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Strong written English for cold InMails and warm replies.
• Comfort with LinkedIn, Sheets/Notion, Calendly.
• High ownership and speed; recruiting is a daily numbers game.
• Discipline in follow-ups and documentation.
• Reliability; should never need a follow-up twice.
• Working from Office, Baner, Pune, 5 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Source candidates daily across LinkedIn, Apollo, Internshala, Naukri, and college networks for 3 to 5 open roles at any time.
• Run first-pass screens on every applicant and tag Good Fit, Maybe, Not a Fit; surface top candidates weekly.
• Own outbound emails and calls to candidates we want, not only inbound applicants.
• Manage candidate communication end-to-end: scheduling, follow-ups, post-interview feedback.
• Own the recruiting tracker with a clean funnel dashboard per role, weekly report.
• Run employer branding lite: careers page hygiene, candidate testimonials, founder posts on LinkedIn.
• Daily leadership sync to share what is working and where the funnel leaks.

Skills

Strong written English

High ownership

Speed in recruiting

Discipline in follow-ups

Reliability

Office work readiness

Tools

LinkedIn

Apollo

Notion

Sheets

Calendly

Job description

For the kind of soul who finds energy in finding people, not just helping them get the job done.

Recruiting is one of those crafts where most people are bad, very few are great, and the great ones quietly run the most important function in any growing company. Without the right people walking in, nothing else scales. Without speed, the right people walk out before they walk in.

We are not great at this yet. We get hundreds of applicants per role, the leadership reviews most of them, and good candidates slip through because nobody got back to them in time. That is the gap this role is built to close.

About The Test Tribe

We are the world's largest Software Testing community turned Workforce Development Startup. 170K+ members. 130+ countries. 45+ global chapters. Close to 1000 events done so far, including 30+ large-scale global conferences. We hold a high quality bar and we keep raising it. Products, services, flagship events, all of it.

About the Role

This is a Talent Acquisition internship role inside the Founder's Office.

You work directly with the founder and leadership on every open role at TTT. Right now that means Business Development, Community, Founder's Office, and Operations hires. Tomorrow it will mean more.

If you want a role that compresses 2 years of recruiting experience and learning into 3-6 months, this is that role. And you can ask this to quite a few interns who walked the same path at TTT.

Stipend: ₹10,000 to ₹20,000/month, based on what you bring to the table readily.

What You Will Do

• Source candidates daily across LinkedIn, Apollo, Internshala, Naukri, and college networks for 3 to 5 open roles at any time
• Run first-pass screens on every applicant. Tag Good Fit, Maybe, Not a Fit. Surface the top 5 to 10 per role to the founder, weekly
• Own outbound cold emails, calls to candidates we want, not just inbound applicants we got
• Manage candidate communication end-to-end. Scheduling, follow-ups, no-show recovery, post-interview feedback
• Own the recruiting tracker. One clean funnel dashboard per role, weekly Monday report
• Run employer branding lite. Careers page hygiene, candidate testimonial posts, founder-led hiring posts on LinkedIn
• Daily leadership sync to share what is working, what is not, where the funnel is leaking

Must-Haves

• Strong written English, you will be writing cold InMails to VPs and warm replies to interns in the same hour
• Comfort with LinkedIn, Sheets/Notion, Calendly
• High ownership and speed, recruiting is a daily numbers game, not a weekly review
• Discipline in follow-ups and documentation
• High reliability, should never need a follow-up twice
• Working from Office, Baner, Pune, 5 days a week

Nice To Have

• Prior sourcing or recruiting reps (college fest hiring, club hiring, internship hiring, freelance recruiting, any)
• Familiarity with Apollo, LinkedIn Recruiter, or any ATS
• Interest in B2B, SaaS, or startup ecosystem

What You Get

• Speed: Learn high-quality recruiting at pace
• Founder access: Daily, not weekly. Feedback in hours, not days
• Real ownership: You will close at least one hire in the first 6 weeks
• Tools provided: LinkedIn Recruiter, Apollo, ChatGPT Pro, Claude, Zoho, Calendly, Notion
• Good news: We don't treat interns as interns
• Bad news: We don't treat interns as interns

Hiring Process

• 30-minute assignment (write 2 outbound messages and a candidate ranking) OR a video pitch on why you are the ideal candidate for this role
• 30-minute founder round
• Offer or result within 3 working days