Working Student – Human Resources

social sweethearts GmbH

HR student assistant supporting People, Organization & Culture team in Cologne with recruiting, operations, and analytics. Flexible working opportunities within an international team and hybrid model.

Posted 5/29/2026part-timeCologne • 🇩🇪 GermanyEntry LevelWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You screen applications, coordinate interviews, and guide candidates through individual process steps.
You support administrative HR tasks, maintain personnel records, prepare contract documents and handle certificates, documents, and internal inquiries.
You assist in organizing trainings, professional development, team and company events, and initiatives related to health and mental wellbeing.
You help prepare HR metrics and reports in a clear format, improve processes and simplify recurring workflows.
You also contribute to automations and AI use cases that make our work more modern and efficient.
You support international freelancer management, review invoices, reconcile services and assist with topics such as compliance, occupational safety and mandatory training.
You proactively bring ideas to HR topics, shape your focus actively and gradually take on more responsibility—aligned with your strengths.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You are enrolled at a German university for at least one more year.
You are studying a subject related to HR, e.g., Business Administration, Economics, Psychology, Business Psychology, Human Resources Management or a similar field.
You have fluent German skills and very good English skills.
You work in a structured, reliable and careful manner.
You are eager to actively help shape processes and company culture and to contribute your own ideas.
You are open to digital tools, process optimization, automation and AI in the HR context.
Ideally, you already have some practical experience in the HR field.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working hours that fit your studies.
An international team with English as the working language and colleagues from over 30 countries.
Mostly remote with regular office presence: You work flexibly from home and are in our Cologne office about once a week—with snacks, drinks, relaxation/gaming areas and ergonomic equipment.
Offers related to mental health and wellbeing.
Team events, summer and Christmas parties.
Annual training budget for courses, seminars and workshops.
Subsidy for your internet costs.
Access to the corporate benefits platform.

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Hard Skills & Tools

HR metricsprocess optimizationautomationAI use casescomplianceoccupational safetycontract preparationpersonnel record maintenanceinvoice reconciliationtraining organization

Soft Skills

structured workreliabilitycarefulnessproactive idea generationcontribution to company cultureeagerness to helpcommunicationteam collaborationadaptabilityinitiative