Human Resources Intern

Headquartered in Melbourne, the firm is employee-owned. Bayside Strategies is a management and technology consulting firm with 450 employees worldwide.

The internship:

The People Team is small and growing. You will help onboard new joiners, update policies, run surveys and keep records clean. This role is fully remote within Australia. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

What you'll do:

• Coordinate onboarding for new joiners: documents, laptop request, welcome email and first-week schedule
• Maintain employee records in the HRMS (Keka, Zoho People or BambooHR) and Google Sheets
• Run online engagement activities like virtual quizzes, birthday shoutouts and town hall polls
• Draft and update HR policies such as leave, remote work and reimbursement, for review by the HR manager
• Collect exit interview responses and summarise common reasons for leaving
• Answer routine employee questions on leave balance and holidays over Slack

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026 or 2027
• Based in Australia for the duration of the internship
• Eligible to work in Australia
• Organised and comfortable with routine documentation work
• Responsive on Slack or email during working hours
• Basic understanding of HR functions from coursework: recruitment, onboarding, payroll, labour law

What you get out of it:

• Day-to-day HR generalist work at a real company, not case studies
• Using an HRMS and building HR reports in Excel
• Certificate and letter of recommendation on completion
• You will draft at least one policy that goes to the leadership team

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $31.00-$34.00 an hour

What we offer:

• Reference on completion
• Graduate scheme fast-track interview
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement

Duration: 5 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bayside Strategies Pty Ltd.