Human Resources Intern

Overview

This internship will immerse you in essential areas such as talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, benefits administration, compliance, and navigating human resource information systems, all while gaining invaluable hands‑on experience that will propel your HR career forward.

• Enters, reviews, and processes HR transactions including student hires according to established policies and procedures.
• Creates, completes and maintains various HR processes, reports, databases, and/or records to ensure compliance with established policies, procedures, and legal rules and regulations. Duties include, but not limited to, performance evaluations, I‑9 verification, background screening, and youth compliance.
• Assists with essential HR functions, including talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, benefits administration, and compliance.
• Serves as a point of contact to 1,200+ employees, managers, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Receives and responds to inquiries in‑person, via email, and through various communication mediums and relays information to appropriate entities.

Required

• Pursuing a Human Resources, Psychology, Business, or a related degree
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with others in a timely and professional manner.

Preferred

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
• UW‑Madison work study eligible
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analysis, technology, problem‑solving, critical thinking, time management, record‑keeping and organization skills.
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and excelling in a dynamic, complex environment.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, work independently, and proactively tackle challenges with a go‑getter attitude.

Minimum: 10 hours. Maximum: 30 hours.

Academic Year: 10‑15 hours per week.

Winter, or Spring Break: 30‑40 hours per week.

Minimum: $17.50.

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August 17, 2026 OR August 24, 2026.

UW‑Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW‑Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin‑Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background‑people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

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