Human Resources; HR Summer Intern

Human Resources (HR) Summer Intern 2026 – Paid Internship, London Hybrid

Real HR experience inside a global consulting firm, with no degree, prior experience or professional connections needed to apply. This paid eight-week summer internship gives you hands‑on work in the People team, exposure to senior leaders, and structured support from Alix Partners and Generation Success, so you build the confidence, skills and network for your next step.

• Opportunity:
  Paid, fixed-term summer internship.
• Organisation:
  Alix Partners, a global consulting firm.
• Location:
  
  London, hybrid with significant remote working. In‑office days confirmed week by week.
• Duration:
  Eight weeks
• Start:
  July 2026
• Level: Entry level. Open to applicants with little or no prior HR experience.

Generation Success connects ambitious talent with employers building the workplace of tomorrow. We are recruiting this internship on behalf of Alix Partners to widen access to careers that can feel hard to reach. We are here so the process tests your potential, not your polish, your postcode or who you know.

Alix Partners is the global consulting firm businesses turn to when challenges are complex and time is short. Its brand line, “When it really matters”, sums up how it works: fast, high‑trust, and built on turnaround, restructuring and performance improvement, with a growing focus on helping clients turn AI into real results. People are trusted with real responsibility early.

Inclusion sits inside the firm’s core values. It is supported by nine employee‑led resource groups and recognised externally through the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality 100 Award. Alix Partners also partners with social mobility organisations, Generation Success among them, to open doors like this one.

This is real work with structured support, not a work‑shadowing placement. You will be embedded across the People Business Partnering and People Operations teams during one of the busiest periods in their year.

Most of your time supports the Business Partnering team on visible, people‑facing work such as mid‑year promotion panels and compensation planning, with supplementary support to the Operations team on practical coordination like scheduling and issuing contracts. You will be paired with a buddy for guidance throughout, and report to the relevant team lead depending on the work in front of you.

During the internship, you will coordinate the senior promotion panels and performance meetings that shape who moves up, managing busy and competing leadership diaries. You will keep the People team’s records and trackers accurate, working confidently in Excel, and you will pull together the data and write the summaries that leaders rely on to make talent decisions.

You will also help new joiners through their first week so onboarding runs smoothly, draft employee letters, and pick up other coordination work as it comes up.

You do not need to have worked in HR, to have a degree, or to know anyone in consulting. If you are interested in people, organisation and how a business runs, this could be a strong first step.

Some people rule themselves out because they worry they lack the right network, background, confidence or words for their experience. Please do not count yourself out early. Your examples can come from study, part‑time work, volunteering, caring responsibilities, student societies, community projects or customer‑facing work; anything that shows how you organise yourself, communicate, learn and follow through.

We hire for potential. If you are organised, curious, willing to ask when you are unsure, and ready to take responsibility for what is in front of you, you are the kind of person we want.

• Keep track of details:
  You manage tasks, deadlines, information and follow‑ups accurately.
• Take ownership:
  You take responsibility for a task, keep others updated and ask for help when you need it.
• Communicate clearly:
  You write and speak clearly in English, including with senior colleagues.
• Use core Microsoft Office:
  You have a working…