Career Pathway: Human Resources (HR)

Build a career in HR from recruitment to people operations.

Gain hands-on experience across the full HR lifecycle: sourcing and hiring talent, onboarding new starters, managing performance and offboarding leavers, all within real tech startups.

A human capital platform. Join us for the long road ahead.

Volunteers
62,500+
Countries
148
Tech Startups helped
200+
Years in operation
5+

Why Human Resources (HR) in tech startups.

People are a tech startup's greatest asset.

Early-stage tech startups live or die by the quality of their initial team. As an HR Volunteer Professional, you’ll shape hiring, culture and performance from the ground up, the kind of experience corporates can’t offer.

Real

Recruitment campaigns you can reference.

Live.

Onboarding programmes you designed.

Proven.

Performance frameworks you implemented.

Volunteer Recruitment for tech startups.

Find, attract and recruit the right Volunteers for tech startups.

Own the end-to-end recruitment process from writing and listing Volunteer Opportunities to interviewing and issuing Volunteer Agreements.

Need analysis

Collaborating with the senior leadership and management, work out the Volunteer recruitment needs for now and the next 4 to 6 months.

Listings.

Using Volunteer Opportunity Templates, publish Volunteer Opportunities edited to suit together with appropriate Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs).

Talent sourcing.

Using Category and Skills filters, identify, attract and engage the best-fit Volunteers on SkilledUp Life via direct messaging.

Review and shortlisting.

Review applications, conduct initial screening through direct messaging and present qualified shortlists to senior management and leadership.

Interview coordination.

Schedule, manage and interview shortlisted Applicants, gather feedback from team members and ensure the best-fit Volunteers are recruited.

Volunteer Agreements.

Collect the necessary information, and issue and manage Volunteer Agreements. Once signed, handover to HR Operations for smooth onboarding.

HR operations.

Onboarding, offboarding and performance.

Build the people infrastructure that helps tech startups and Volunteers achieve win-win, develop high performers and part ways gracefully.

Onboarding.

Design and execute structured onboarding plans: welcome, system access, buddy assignments and 30-60-90 day plans.

Offboarding.

Manage exit processes including knowledge transfer, exit interviews and alumni network engagement.

Performance management.

Build and run performance review cycles, set up OKR/KPI frameworks, facilitate 1-to-1s and track development goals.

HR policy and compliance.

Draft and maintain HR policies, ensure compliance with internal rules and create employee handbooks.

Your HR portfolio.

Walk away with proof, not promises.

Recruitment case studies.

Document the roles you filled, sourcing strategies you used and time-to-hire metrics you achieved.

Onboarding programmes.

Showcase the onboarding frameworks, checklists and welcome processes you designed and ran.

Performance metrics.

Present the OKR frameworks, review cycles and 1-to-1 templates you built and implemented.

HR policies.

Reference the employee handbooks, policies and compliance frameworks you drafted.

Referenceable experience.

Gain a verifiable reference from the startup founders you worked alongside.

Professional network.

Connect with other HR professionals, founders and operators across 148 countries.

Getting started.

Start your HR career in 3 steps.

Three simple steps to accelerate your career in HR.

Create your profile.

Sign up, highlight your HR interests in recruitment, operations or both and build your Volunteer profile fully.

Match with a tech startup.

Browse HR volunteer opportunities and apply to those that align with your career goals.

Build and deliver.

Join the team, own real HR responsibilities and build a portfolio of demonstrable outcomes.

Success Success stories. Isn’t it time you create your own success story with us?

Real people. Real results.

60,000+ Volunteer Professionals from 148 countries

Elise Singleton

No previous HR education or experience but had work experience. Her dream job was to break into HR. She volunteered for SkilledUp Life as a HR Volunteer. Upon completion, she landed her first HR job with an established American company, Equinix as Talent Acquisition Coordinator. #British #CareerTransition​

• Elise lands her dream job

Dora Blasberg​

Dora had significant HR experience but struggled to land her first job in the UK as a French expat. With experience and skills gained through SkilledUp Life in an English speaking British environment, she landed a job with energy giant EDF. #French #Localisation​

• Dora lands her job

Ayonike Okereke​

Ayonike was an experienced solicitor who wished to transitioned to HR. She gained invaluable experience through SkilledUp Life operating as Head of HR, which resulted in her career transitioning and landing a job as Group HR Manager, managing 200 employees in eight subsidiaries across manufacturing, hospitality, telecommunication.

#Nigerian #CareerTransition​

Don't wait for experience. Create it.

Join hundreds of young professionals already building their careers through SkilledUp Life. It's free, it's remote, its flexible and it's real.