Marketing and Recruiting Intern (Paid)

Company:

Schechter Reed is a woman-owned search firm with over 20-years experience of providing organizations of all size, stage and sector with the area’s top talent. We specialize in recruiting Human Resources, Administrative and Operations professionals for key full-time and contract hires. We are part of a thriving consortium of partner recruiting firms so we can confidently refer our clients when they have hiring needs in other specialties including accounting/finance, IT, Executive Search, Sales and Marketing.

Position:

Our newly-created Internship is designed to introduce students to the sought-after recruiting profession. Interns will gain familiarity with popular recruiting tactics including: identifying and sourcing candidate profiles on LinkedIn, identifying appropriate job boards and communities for postings, screening resumes, generating referrals, drafting candidate summaries for presentation, running Boolean Logic searches in applicant tracking system, phone interviewing and drafting candidate summaries for client presentation.

Qualifications:

In this critical role, we seek a highly-motivated student with professional maturity, curiosity, creativity to think outside the box, strong interpersonal skills, a passion for business and the ability to accept and adapt to constructive feedback. Must have impeccable professional and character references.

Key Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with company President, devise and execute candidate research strategy for current searches
• Assure each client search maintains a healthy pipeline of candidates
• Generate business-savvy research to stay on top of industry trends
• Analyze recruiting metrics including days-to-fill, offer/acceptance rates, etc.
• Check references
• Research and identify new recruiting outlets and methods

*Ideal candidate will reside in Washington, D.C. area in Summer 2026 and be able to work part-time hours in office.