Intern - Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding

About The Role

As a Talent Acquisition Intern, you will play an integral role in supporting our recruitment and employer branding initiatives. You will gain hands-on experience in a variety of areas, including content creation, talent sourcing, candidate communication, and recruitment marketing. You’ll work closely with our Talent Acquisition (TA) Manager, HR team, marketing, and design teams to deliver high-quality recruitment materials and enhance our employer brand.

• Digital Content Creation: Design recruitment assets such as candidate packs, job descriptions, and engaging digital content to attract top talent.
• Communication Development: Craft and optimise impactful communication strategies and templates throughout the recruitment journey.
• Community Building: Support the creation and management of talent pools, by identifying emerging talent communities and building long-term relationships.
• Talent Intelligence & Sourcing: You will assist with sourcing top talent by conducting research on key talent pools and monitoring competitor strategies.
• Recruitment Operations: Support operational activities such as interviews, candidate communications, and administrative support.
• Recruitment Marketing & Branding: You will help develop and execute recruitment marketing campaigns to enhance our employer brand and attract the best candidates.

About You

The qualities we are looking for:

• Someone who is currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme in The Netherlands and is able to work from the Amsterdam office at least 3 days a week.
• Eager to learn, explore new challenges, and develop practical skills in the world of recruitment and communications.
• Comfortable working with digital tools and platforms (experience with Canva or similar design tools is a plus; familiarity with Adobe tools is an advantage).
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to craft engaging, clear, and persuasive content.
• Curious, proactive, and motivated to uncover insights, solve problems, and contribute fresh ideas to improve the recruitment experience.
• Microsoft Excel skills at an intermediate level.
• Basic understanding and interest in research techniques and data gathering methods to assess talent trends and competitor activity.

About Us

Why work for GÉANT?

GÉANT is at the heart of research and education networking, we offer talented people the opportunity to be part of something meaningful and worthwhile. With 150 employees based in Amsterdam and Cambridge, together we deliver an information ecosystem of infrastructure and services to advance research, education, and innovation on a global scale. Thanks to our terabit network, 50 million researchers, scientists, academics and students can share record volumes of data unconstrained by location, solving some of humankind’s biggest challenges. Work at GÉANT and you’ll be supporting critical research into sustainable energy, deep space, high-energy physics, earth observation, environmental disasters, medicine and much more!

Working Arrangements

We have adopted a flexible-hybrid model which means that employees will work flexibly between a remote and office environment. Weekly visits to the office are required for most employees to support our values and collaborative culture and enable our teams to deliver great work. For this role we anticipate that you may be required in the office for around 3-4 days per week.