Human Resource and Organizational Psychology Internships

Make a Difference as You Gain Experience

GREAT HUMAN RESOURCE INTERNSHIPS

We seek high-achieving students and recent graduates to take a leadership role as virtual (online) Human Resource (HR) Interns with our prestigious nonprofit. We have opportunities to focus on strategy, research, recruitment, interviewing, and/or onboarding as we grow our national team.

You will take on a professional role. This is NOT the typical internship where people run a copy machine, file papers, and fetch coffee. We want people who can perform at a professional level and assume real responsibility.

TWO TYPES OF HR INTERNSHIP ROLES

We have two types of roles for those interested in Human Resources and Organizational / Industrial Psychology:

• National Team:

Focus on strategy, research, recruitment, interviewing, and/or onboarding as we grow our national team.

• College-Based:

We are building a nationwide network of Community Engagement Interns to raise awareness of and encourage engagement with our nonprofit, which is discussed below. We will have ten to fifty such interns at every college. Each will focus on the cause or community of their choice or on a specific facet of their college community, e.g., Greek Life, Grad Schools, Athletics, Faculty, and Alumni.

As a College-Based HR Intern, you will be responsible for all aspects of HR for those Community Engagement Interns at your college (and possibly additional colleges), including strategy, recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding.

GREAT EXPERIENCE; UNPAID

We provide a great opportunity to use your skills, gain experience, and enhance your resume as you make a meaningful change in the world, but we only have unpaid positions.

CREDIT

Many colleges offer credit, and this program is eligible, subject to approval by your school.

ABOUT US

The New York Times called our nonprofit, ChangingThePresent.org, “*an Amazon.com of the nonprofit world*.” We help channel to leading nonprofits some of the $450 billion Americans spend each year buying birthday, wedding, and holiday presents. We do this by making the experience of a donation, which you give in a friend’s name, feel like a rewarding present and a nice alternative to buying yet more unwanted merchandise. See this overview: ChangingThePresent.org/pages/our-story

Imagine the impact we can make together as more and more people adopt this type of meaningful giving! Each 1% of the money now spent on presents is $4.5 billion a year to make the world a better place.

A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

We have had interns and volunteers from all over the United States and more than eighty countries. The atmosphere is respectful, supportive, energetic, creative, and fun. We value brainstorming, initiative, sharing, and collaborating. The environment is like a laboratory, studio, seminar, or incubator. You can see how interns rave about the experience here: ChangingThePresent.org/reviews

WHAT YOU WILL GET OUT OF THE EXPERIENCE

• Use your skills, experience, knowledge, creativity, and talent.
• Assume responsibility and take a leadership role.
• Learn a tremendous amount.
• Work with people from around the country and have a great time.
• Enhance your resume with a record of achievement and community service.
• Receive the rave recommendation you deserve.
• Make the greatest possible positive impact in the world.

WHO

We welcome outstanding undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates. We meet the requirements of OPT and CPT for international students.

WHEN

HR Interns on our national team can work ten to forty hours per week. Those on college teams can work four to forty hours per week. You can work weekdays, evenings, or weekends to accommodate your schedule. We seek interns to work during the school year and/or summer.

WHERE: ENTIRELY VIRTUAL

We are based in New York City, but we are 100% virtual, so you can work from wherever you like (our most distant intern was in Mongolia), wear what you want, and totally avoid the wasted time of commuting.