HR Intern: Recruiting Ops & Process Improvement

BLVD Residential; Roseville (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

BLVD Residential is seeking an HR Intern to lead a 12-week project to assess current hiring practices and create practical tools that improve consistency, candidate experience, and quality of hire. You will support onsite operations and corporate functions across CA, NV, and AZ, building a portfolio of real-world HR deliverables.

The role involves mapping workflows, developing interview guides, templates, and a training program, and delivering final recommendations to HR and executives.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, or a related field.
• Strong written communication, research, interviewing, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to organize complex information and create clear, user-friendly templates and processes.
• Comfort working independently, managing deadlines, and incorporating feedback from multiple stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and SharePoint; experience with an applicant tracking system is helpful.
• Interest in recruiting, structured interviewing, candidate experience, and employment compliance.
• Sound judgment and the ability to handle candidate and employee information confidentially.

Responsibilities

• Review current job descriptions, offer letters, recruiting process, and existing interview and recruiting materials.
• Interview HR, operational leaders, hiring managers, executives, and recent hires to understand current practices and pain points.
• Create a role inventory and organize positions into role families across leasing, property management, maintenance, compliance, regional operations, and corporate functions.
• Map the end-to-end hiring workflow, including requisition approval, posting, screening, structured interviews, skills assessments, references, offers, post-offer background checks, and onboarding handoff.
• Develop a RACI that clarifies responsibilities for HR, recruiters, hiring managers, and interview panel members.
• Draft structured interview guides and scorecards with job-related competencies, behavioral and situational questions, follow-up probes, anchored rating scales, and role-appropriate skills assessments.
• Create candidate and internal communication templates for each stage of the recruiting process.
• Build a hiring manager training program, including a slide deck, facilitator guide, role-play scenarios, and knowledge check.
• Compile a centralized hiring resource library and maintenance guide in SharePoint with clear ownership and version control.
• Support a pilot training session, gather feedback, observe selected interviews with consent, revise materials, and present final recommendations to HR and executive leadership.

Skills

Strong written communication

Research skills

Interviewing

Presentation skills

Organizational skills

MS Word

PowerPoint

Excel

SharePoint

Applicant Tracking System

Education

HR/Business degree program

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

SharePoint

Applicant Tracking System

Job description

BLVD Residential is seeking an HR Intern to lead a 12-week project to assess current hiring practices and create practical tools that improve consistency, candidate experience, and quality of hire. You will support onsite operations and corporate functions across CA, NV, and AZ, building a portfolio of real-world HR deliverables.

The role involves mapping workflows, developing interview guides, templates, and a training program, and delivering final recommendations to HR and executives.