Recruiter & Onboarder Intern | Scale Pledge
Job Description
About Scale Pledge
Scale Pledge is a tech-focused influencer marketing agency helping brands connect with creators through strategic, performance-driven influencer campaigns.
As the agency grows, we are building more structured systems for recruiting, evaluating, and onboarding team members across project-based, internship, and operational roles.
About the Role
We are looking for a Recruitment & Onboarding Intern to help manage recruitment projects from initial hiring request through candidate selection and onboarding.
This is a hands-on, unpaid, project-based internship designed for someone who already understands the fundamentals of recruiting and wants experience applying that knowledge in a real working environment.
This is not a shadowing internship or a role built around step-by-step instructions.
You will receive recruitment briefs from the CEO outlining the role, hiring need, requirements, and relevant constraints. From there, you will be expected to translate that request into an organized recruitment process, execute it, evaluate the results, and improve the process over time.
The role follows a simple operating philosophy:
Test → Measure → Learn → Improve
Key Responsibilities
You may be responsible for:
Reviewing recruitment briefs provided by the CEO
Understanding the purpose, responsibilities, requirements, and success criteria for each role
Developing a sourcing and recruitment strategy based on the specific hiring need
Creating and publishing role listings
Using Scale Pledge's custom website application system to manage recruitment
Creating application forms and role-specific screening questions
Organizing candidate applications and recruitment stages
Researching and identifying appropriate sourcing channels
Conducting candidate outreach when required
Screening applications against documented requirements
Managing asynchronous screening processes
Developing relevant interview questions, assessments, or work samples
Coordinating interviews and candidate communication
Maintaining an organized candidate pipeline
Documenting reasons for advancing or rejecting candidates
Preparing candidate recommendations for CEO review
Coordinating the onboarding process for selected candidates
Maintaining recruitment documentation and internal records
Reviewing recruitment results and identifying opportunities for improvement
Supporting additional recruitment and onboarding projects requested by the CEO
Many recruitment projects may involve outreach to Muslim communities and audiences, particularly where those communities are relevant to Scale Pledge's projects, mission, or recruitment strategy.
How Recruitment Projects Work
The CEO will typically provide a recruitment brief explaining what Scale Pledge needs.
You will then be expected to take ownership of the recruitment process:
Recruitment Brief → Role Analysis → Recruitment Strategy → Application Setup → Sourcing & Posting → Screening → Interviews / Assessments → Candidate Recommendation → Selection → Onboarding → Performance Review → Process Improvement
The exact process may change depending on the role.
You should not assume that the same sourcing strategy, application questions, interview process, or assessment will work for every position.
Part of your responsibility is determining what process makes sense for the specific hiring need and why.
Required Qualifications
We are looking for someone who:
Understands the fundamentals of recruiting and candidate sourcing
Understands basic screening and candidate evaluation
Communicates professionally and clearly in English
Is comfortable working independently
Can take a goal or brief and determine the steps required to execute it
Pays close attention to details
Can organize multiple candidates and recruitment stages effectively
Is comfortable researching solutions when they do not already know the answer
Can explain the reasoning behind recruitment decisions
Is willing to experiment, review results, and improve their approach
Can receive feedback and make adjustments quickly
Is dependable and follows through on responsibilities
Nice to Have
These are helpful but not required:
Previous sourcing or recruiting experience
Experience managing applicants or candidate pipelines
Experience with LinkedIn recruiting or outreach
Experience writing job descriptions
Experience creating screening questions or interview scorecards
Experience conducting interviews
Experience with asynchronous screening methods such as recorded video responses
Familiarity with applicant tracking systems or recruitment platforms
Experience recruiting for internships, freelance, remote, or project-based roles
Experience recruiting within online communities
Familiarity with creator marketing, influencer marketing, digital marketing, or technology
Experience documenting SOPs or improving internal processes
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role is not measured simply by how many people you contact or interview.
You should be able to:
Consistently attract relevant candidates
Keep candidate pipelines organized
Identify qualified candidates efficiently
Reduce unnecessary steps in the recruitment process
Create a professional candidate experience
Make recommendations supported by evidence
Understand which sourcing channels produce stronger candidates
Identify where candidates are dropping out of the recruitment funnel
Improve application, screening, and interview methods based on results
Successfully onboard selected candidates
Build processes that can be reused and improved for future hiring
Over time, another recruiter should be able to understand and follow the recruitment systems you helped develop.
Working Style
This role provides significant independence.
You will receive direction on what Scale Pledge needs to accomplish, but you should not expect every individual step to be provided to you.
You are expected to:
Use knowledge you already have
Research when necessary
Make reasonable decisions
Test different approaches
Track results
Identify mistakes
Recommend improvements
Apply what you learn to the next recruitment cycle
The goal is not to execute the same process repeatedly. The goal is to determine what actually works and build a better recruitment system from the evidence gathered.
What You'll Gain
This role is intended to provide practical experience that can become a meaningful portfolio project.
Depending on the projects completed, you may gain experience in:
End-to-end recruitment
Candidate sourcing
Recruitment strategy
Applicant screening
Candidate outreach
Structured interviews
Candidate assessments
Recruitment funnel management
Applicant management systems
Candidate communication
Hiring recommendations
Onboarding
Recruitment analytics
Process improvement
SOP development
By the end of the internship, you should have contributed to a documented recruitment system and be able to explain not only what you did, but what you tested, what worked, what failed, and how you improved the process.
Who This Role Is Best For
This opportunity is best suited for someone who already understands recruiting fundamentals but needs real projects where they can apply and strengthen those skills.
It may be especially useful for someone looking to:
Build practical recruiting experience
Strengthen their professional portfolio
Manage recruitment beyond classroom exercises
Gain experience working directly with a founder
Practice making independent recruitment decisions
Learn through execution rather than observation
Application Process
Our application process is designed to evaluate candidates efficiently without immediately requiring a live interview.
Application → Asynchronous Screening → Application Review → Additional Assessment or Interview if Needed → Final Review → Selection & Onboarding
Selected applicants will receive further information about the next stage.
Role Details
Role Type
Unpaid, Project-based internship
Expected Duration
3–6 months
Expected Commitment
Approximately 10–16 hours per week
Location
Remote
Travel
None expected
Reports To
CEO
Schedule
Flexible, with responsibilities and deadlines determined by active recruitment projects
Compensation
Unpaid internship. This role is intended to provide hands-on project experience, portfolio-building opportunities, and practical experience managing real recruitment cycles.
Final Goal
The goal of this internship is not simply to help fill individual positions.
The broader objective is to help Scale Pledge develop a repeatable, evidence-based recruitment and onboarding system.
By the end of the internship, your work should leave the recruitment process more organized, measurable, efficient, and documented than when you started.