Internship - Tech Recruiter
The Situation We don’t hire interns to make coffee or do data entry. We are a high-performing tech division of one of the world's leading recruitment firms, and we just restructured our Delivery Engine. We are looking for a hungry, tech-obsessed intern to join us for 12 months in Zurich to act as the intelligence and sourcing backbone for our Delivery Team.
This is a front-line commercial role. You will learn how to hunt elite tech talent, decode complex IT markets, and build the pipelines that drive our revenue. If you prove yourself, this is your springboard into a highly lucrative career in tech recruitment or tech sales.
What You Will Actually Do You will be the right hand to our Delivery team and recruiters. Your mission is to find the people no one else can find and keep our pipelines warm.
Deep-Dive Sourcing: You will use advanced search techniques to map markets and hunt down top-tier Tech professionals across Europe.
Building the Engine (Talent Pooling): You will proactively build and manage hyper-targeted talent pools for our most critical, recurring tech roles.
Candidate Engagement & Elite Outreach: Software engineers ignore 99% of recruiter spam. You will learn how to craft hyper-personalized outreach that actually gets replies. And you won’t just hide behind a screen: you will pick up the phone to conduct update calls, build real relationships, and keep our top candidates warm and engaged.
Commercial Support & Market Intelligence: You are our eyes and ears in the market. You will map competitor landscapes, track salary trends, spot who is hiring, and gather intelligence that gives our Delivery teams a massive competitive advantage.
The Non-Negotiables (Who You Are)
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We are strict on this. Do not apply if you don’t meet these criteria:
Bilingual: You speak and write both German and English to a flawless professional standard.
Zurich Based: You live in or around Zurich and can work with us locally.
Tech-Obsessed & Ready to Hunt: You have a genuine passion for Tech and AI. Ideally, you have completed an apprenticeship (Lehre) in IT, studied Computer Science/IT or bring 3–6 months of hands-on recruitment/sourcing experience where you already learned the basics of Boolean search and candidate outreach.
Relentless Curiosity: You are a sponge for information. You don't wait to be told what to do next; you figure it out.
Unfazed by the Phone: You aren’t afraid to pick up the phone and speak to highly intelligent, tech professionals. (This won’t be from day 1, but will be a future task)
What’s In It For You?
Real World Exposure: You will learn the mechanics of the European tech market, advanced sales psychology, and headhunting techniques.
Transferable skills: Recruitment teaches you so many things. Sourcing, headhunting, negotiation, sales and persuasion, how hiring works, contractual and legal topics. This are all transferable and highly sought after skills.
A Clear Pathway: A 12-month intensive training ground. Prove your commercial worth, and there could be a permanent seat at the table waiting for you.
The Tech: Access to top-tier recruitment tools, bespoke AI cover-sheet generation, and a modern tech stack.
If you are passionate about technology, curious by nature and eager to develop your career in tech recruitment, we would welcome your application.
Please send us your CV via website or directly to Richa.bali@randstad.com.
