A Day in Your Life at MKS:
As a Talent Acquisition Intern, you will support the recruitment team in attracting, engaging, and hiring top talent across the organization. You will gain hands-on experience in the full recruitment lifecycle, including candidate sourcing, resume screening, interview coordination, and recruitment administration, while ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
This internship offers valuable exposure to Talent Acquisition practices within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates, and report directly to the Talent Acquisition Lead.
You Will Make an Impact By:
- Supporting recruitment activities by sourcing candidates through various channels and identifying qualified talent.
- Screening resumes and shortlisting candidates based on job requirements and hiring criteria.
- Conducting initial candidate outreach and phone screenings to assess qualifications and interest.
- Coordinating and scheduling interviews, ensuring a seamless experience for both candidates and hiring teams.
- Assisting with job posting activities across career sites, job boards, and other recruitment platforms.
- Maintaining and updating candidate databases, recruitment trackers, and applicant records accurately.
- Assisting in the preparation of recruitment-related documents and reports.
- Supporting employer branding initiatives and recruitment marketing activities.
- Assisting with the planning and execution of university engagement programs, career fairs, campus recruitment activities, and networking events.
- Building and maintaining relationships with university career services and student organizations to support talent pipeline development.
- Participating in Talent Acquisition and HR projects, process improvement initiatives, and other duties as assigned.
Skills You Bring:
- Background in Human Resources, Business Administration, Administrative, Public Relations, Politic Science or related fields.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
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Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to various export control regulations. Applicants for these positions may be limited (by, for example, their countries of citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status) where required by law or governmental contact, and/or employment made contingent upon the issuance of appropriate governmental licensing.
MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.
MKS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact us at: [email protected] .
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Skills Required
- Background in Human Resources, Business Administration, Administrative studies, Public Relations, Political Science, or a related field
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Attention to detail
MKS Instruments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about MKS Instruments and has not been reviewed or approved by MKS Instruments.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits coverage is often characterized as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision along with company-paid life and disability coverage. Wellness support is also present via programs such as diabetes management.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer match, a Roth option, and an employee stock purchase plan that supports longer-term saving and ownership. Profit-sharing is also described as available after meeting eligibility/vesting timelines.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Variable pay elements such as bonuses and performance-tied incentives are positioned as a consistent component of total rewards. Total compensation is frequently framed as including base pay plus bonus and, for some roles, equity-related components.
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What We Do
MKS Instruments enables technologies that transform our world. We deliver foundational technology solutions to leading edge semiconductor manufacturing, electronics and packaging, and specialty industrial applications. We apply our broad science and engineering capabilities to create instruments, subsystems, systems, process control solutions and specialty chemicals technology that improve process performance, optimize productivity and enable unique innovations for many of the world’s leading technology and industrial companies. Our solutions are critical to addressing the challenges of miniaturization and complexity in advanced device manufacturing by enabling increased power, speed, feature enhancement, and optimized connectivity. Our solutions are also critical to addressing ever-increasing performance requirements across a wide array of specialty industrial applications. Additional information can be found at www.mks.com






