Recruiter/HR Department Skillbridge Intern

Location: Hybrid and on-site in Hampton, VA

 Job Summary:

Are you a military service member within or nearing your 180-day window for separation from active duty? If this is you, then ZelTech, LLC has a unique opportunity to help launch the next chapter in your professional life. Our DoD SkillBridge Internship Program matches civilian opportunities to your job training and work experience. While filling this position you will continue to receive military compensation and benefits. In this position you will:

• Learn how your military experience translates into a rewarding civilian career.
• Explore a career or industry you might want to pursue upon separation from active duty.
• Earn real-world industry qualifications and certifications. 
• Build experience and competency in your trade/ profession with our team.
• Expand your professional network of contacts.
• Gain familiarity with corporate culture.

Internship could be from 6 – 24 weeks long depending on availability of service member and can commence within the final 180-days before a service member leaves active duty.

Responsibilities:

• Learn basic recruitment sourcing, phone screen, interviewing, scheduling, and place individuals within the organization.
• Learn and apply advanced social sourcing techniques to find job candidates on the web.
• OJT and LMS Coursework learning/ working with HR/ Talent Acquisition systems, policies, processes, and programs.
• Partner with Hiring Managers by performing effective recruitment intake interviews.
• Perform activities in multiple human resources areas.
• Participate in a practical, systematic program of on-the-job training and related instruction to develop existing military, prior civilian experience and/ or education.
• Assist in performing transactional TA activities such as job postings, processing hiring-related paperwork, scheduling interviews, reference checking, etc. 

Requirements:

• Must meet all eligibility requirements outlined in DOD Instruction 1322.29. 
• Command approval via ZelTech, LLC SkillBridge Application.
• Official TAD/ TDY Orders to ZelTech, LLC for the period of the internship.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of civilian employment laws and human resources best practices.
• Goal oriented and comfortable with deadlines/ tight timelines for filling job vacancies.
• Ability to work within and utilize many social media platforms.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to network, plus build and maintain professional relationships with managers, candidates, resource organizations, and team members.
• Ability to handle confidential information.
• Continue to build on knowledge and skill in all topics covered in prior weeks.
• Successful background check. 

Preferred Requirements:

• Minimum of two years as a military recruiter. 
• Bachelor’s degree in business or human resources.
• Any AIRS CIR, CSSR, CDR, PRC certification, or HRCI or SHRM sponsored HR certification.

Physical Demands or Work Environment: 

The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.

• Frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.

• Strength demands are minimal for sedentary work.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to ten pounds and occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. 

About Zel Tech

Zel Tech is a minority owned small business (NAICS 541715) specializing in customer threat reduction. We provide a full spectrum of threat reduction services from planning, training, operations, R&D, advising, and solution prototyping across our services and solutions business groups. We combine best of breed engineering practices, subject matter expertise, design services, computer science, and data analytics with innovative approaches in artificial intelligence and machine learning, AR/VR, R&D, and physics-based modeling and simulation providing tailored solutions addressing our customer’s unique threat requirements.

Our Mission

We provide customers with the knowledge, tools, and solutions needed for correct and timely decisions and effective actions to help ensure U.S. national security. 

Diversity Workforce

Zel Tech team members represent a wide range of backgrounds, skills, experience, and personalities bound together by common objectives and mutual respect. You will join a caring community of professional, including many military veterans who challenge and support each other in seeking the right solutions to important matters.

 Equal Opportunities

Zel Tech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital status, military status, genetic predisposition, or any other basis protected by law.