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sHR. Internship Learnings – HR and Recruitment Through the Eyes of an Intern
sHR. intern Alp Aziz Timur wrote a blog post about his experience and learning process at sHR. We thank him and wish him a good luck in his career.
In the second month of my career as an IT recruiter, while my internship period will be ending soon, I would like to share my internship experience in sHR Consultancy and what I learn about HR and recruitment practices. This post will be based on my personal experience. I believe everyone has their own story in this sector, so I want to share mine with the sHR family to show how a career in the recruitment sector can be adored.
Until last year, I was just an undergraduate student who believes that academia is the one and only right career choice for me. I had some small experiences in the work environment in Turkey, and like most of my friends, I didn’t like the private sector. I can still count numerous reasons why I hate the private sector in Turkey, but it will become a classical tragedy post that most of us hear every day. On the other hand, this post is about how I like to work in the private sector thanks to sHR.
Three months ago, I applied to sHR. Consultancy’s Linkedin internship ad since I wish to spend my summer with understanding what practitioners do in the HR sector. As an academic who wishes to become an industrial and organizational psychologist that deals with the problems of the people in the workplace, it was a brave decision for me. Today, I know that this brave choice was what I needed. Today, I believe that everyone who wants to make a difference in i/o psychology should be unorthodox and work as a practitioner and understand the real problems of the sector.
In that sense, sHR was the best choice for me for two reasons. Firstly, they have a company culture that supports the scientist-practitioner model that is based on private sector-academia cooperation. They know that this partnership could add the quality that they wanted to their job, and they implement recent findings to their work methodology. Secondly, sHR is a company with a start-up climate and institutionalized mentality. The combination of these two is very rare in the world, and I am really glad to experience this with sHR family.
So, what did I learn as an IT recruitment intern? I cannot describe the redundancy of their teachings. As an intern in sHR, I started to learn technical knowledge of the IT sector which is maybe the most important thing to become an IT recruiter since speaking the same language with the candidates is very important. The overwhelming glossary of IT was hard at first, but I am still learning more and more and even today, I can feel the difference while I speak with a software developer.
From the beginning of my internship, I have been attending interviews, screening the suitable candidates for the jobs and researching both IT and recruitment sector. In Turkey, it is very hard to find an internship that HR professionals let you have hand-on experience in these processes. Thanks to sHR, from the beginning, I had the opportunity to directly contact with the core of the business.
We all know that HR practices in Turkey inhumane at most. It is very hard to find an HR department that cares about the well-being of a candidate, conducts unbiased interviews and cares about the expectations and time of the candidates. With whole my heart, I can say that sHR showed me that there is a right way to do this job. They changed my perspective on how a good practitioner should be.
Today, I want to continue my career in the private sector as well as academia to develop the best recruitment practices. In that sense, I want to thank sHR family for everything they teach to me.
