Talent Acquisition Intern - Founder's Office

For the kind of soul who finds energy in finding people, not just helping them get the job done.
Recruiting is one of those crafts where most people are bad, very few are great, and the great ones quietly run the most important function in any growing company. Without the right people walking in, nothing else scales. Without speed, the right people walk out before they walk in.
We are not great at this yet. We get hundreds of applicants per role, the leadership reviews most of them, and good candidates slip through because nobody got back to them in time. That is the gap this role is built to close.
About The Test Tribe
We are the world's largest Software Testing community turned Workforce Development Startup. 170K+ members. 130+ countries. 45+ global chapters. Close to 1000 events done so far, including 30+ large-scale global conferences. We hold a high quality bar and we keep raising it. Products, services, flagship events, all of it.
About the Role
This is a Talent Acquisition internship role inside the Founder's Office.
You work directly with the founder and leadership on every open role at TTT. Right now that means Business Development, Community, Founder's Office, and Operations hires. Tomorrow it will mean more.
If you want a role that compresses 2 years of recruiting experience and learning into 3-6 months, this is that role. And you can ask this to quite a few interns who walked the same path at TTT.
Stipend: ₹10,000 to ₹20,000/month, based on what you bring to the table readily.
What You Will Do
Source candidates daily across LinkedIn, Apollo, Internshala, Naukri, and college networks for 3 to 5 open roles at any time
Run first-pass screens on every applicant. Tag Good Fit, Maybe, Not a Fit. Surface the top 5 to 10 per role to the founder, weekly
Own outbound cold emails, calls to candidates we want, not just inbound applicants we got
Manage candidate communication end-to-end. Scheduling, follow-ups, no-show recovery, post-interview feedback
Own the recruiting tracker. One clean funnel dashboard per role, weekly Monday report
Run employer branding lite. Careers page hygiene, candidate testimonial posts, founder-led hiring posts on LinkedIn
Daily leadership sync to share what is working, what is not, where the funnel is leaking
Must-Haves
Strong written English, you will be writing cold InMails to VPs and warm replies to interns in the same hour
Comfort with LinkedIn, Sheets/Notion, Calendly
High ownership and speed, recruiting is a daily numbers game, not a weekly review
Discipline in follow-ups and documentation
High reliability, should never need a follow-up twice
Working from Office, Baner, Pune, 5 days a week
Nice To Have
Prior sourcing or recruiting reps (college fest hiring, club hiring, internship hiring, freelance recruiting, any)
Familiarity with Apollo, LinkedIn Recruiter, or any ATS
Interest in B2B, SaaS, or startup ecosystem
What You Get
Speed: Learn high-quality recruiting at pace
Founder access: Daily, not weekly. Feedback in hours, not days
Real ownership: You will close at least one hire in the first 6 weeks
Tools provided: LinkedIn Recruiter, Apollo, ChatGPT Pro, Claude, Zoho, Calendly, Notion
Good news: We don't treat interns as interns
Bad news: We don't treat interns as interns
Hiring Process
20-minute screening call
30-minute assignment (write 2 outbound messages and a candidate ranking) OR a video pitch on why you are the ideal candidate for this role
30-minute founder round
Offer or result within 3 working days
This role is for a high-ownership, structured, fast-moving person who wants to learn recruiting as a craft, not as a checkbox. If that sounds like you, apply.

Work arrangement
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