Recruiting Intern: Launch Your HR Career

CRST The Transportation Solution; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

CRST The Transportation Solution offers a Summer Internship in Recruiting within our Human Resources team in Cedar Rapids, IA. You will assist with day-to-day recruiting activities, candidate engagement, and employer branding while gaining hands-on experience across the hiring lifecycle.

Applicants must be enrolled as undergraduates in HR, business, or related fields, with strong communication and organization skills and a willingness to learn new systems quickly.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate student pursuing HR, business, communications, psychology, or related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to engage professionally with candidates and stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn new systems and processes quickly.

Responsibilities

• Recruiting Support: Assist with day-to-day recruiting activities, candidate tracking, scheduling, and recruiting operations
• Candidate Experience: Support candidate communications, interview coordination, hiring events, and recruiting outreach efforts
• Sourcing Support: Assist with identifying and researching potential candidates through recruiting platforms, databases, networking resources, and lead-generation activities
• Recruiting Analytics: Support recruiting reports, hiring metrics, dashboards, and recruiting data analysis
• Employment Branding: Assist with job postings, recruiting marketing efforts, career fairs, hiring events, referral programs, and employment brand initiatives
• Applicant Processing: Support candidate workflow, application review, documentation, background screening coordination, and hiring processes
• Project Participation: Support recruiting initiatives through research, coordination, documentation, and implementation activities
• Process Improvement: Assist with identifying opportunities to improve recruiting processes, candidate experience, and operational efficiency
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with recruiting team members, HR partners, operational leaders, and business stakeholders to support hiring objectives
• Professional Development: Participate in learning opportunities, mentorship activities, and business meetings to build recruiting and business knowledge
• Adaptability: Learn recruiting systems, hiring processes, sourcing strategies, and business operations while supporting assigned work
• Senior Leadership Exposure: Learn from our Senior Leaders from day 1 and present your project and experience to them at the end of the summer!
• Accountability and Reliability: Maintain regular and reliable attendance while performing other duties as assigned to support team and business needs

Skills

Communication

Relationship Building

Organization

Learning Agility

Education

Undergraduate student pursuing HR/business/communications/psychology/organizational leadership or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Applicant Tracking Systems

CRM platforms

Social media

Recruiting tools

Job description

CRST The Transportation Solution offers a Summer Internship in Recruiting within our Human Resources team in Cedar Rapids, IA. You will assist with day-to-day recruiting activities, candidate engagement, and employer branding while gaining hands-on experience across the hiring lifecycle.

Applicants must be enrolled as undergraduates in HR, business, or related fields, with strong communication and organization skills and a willingness to learn new systems quickly.