HR / Talent Development Intern

Culture & Growth Team

Position Summary

The HR / Talent Development Intern will get hands-on experience supporting real people, talent, and culture projects across MCA. This role will help improve the employee experience through projects tied to onboarding, recruiting tools, leadership development, retention, and employee engagement.

This is a great opportunity for someone who is curious about Human Resources, enjoys organizing information, wants to learn how a business supports its people, and likes turning ideas into practical tools that managers and employees can actually use. The internship plan includes onboarding improvement, sales role profiles, recruiting support tools, leadership development, retention planning, and engagement support.

What You Will Do

Improve Onboarding

Help make the new hire experience easier and more consistent.

You will help:

• Review onboarding emails, checklists, and process steps
• Update new hire and manager resources
• Find ways to make onboarding clearer and easier
• Explore how learning tools, emails, and texts can support onboarding

Support Recruiting and Sales Talent Tools

Help MCA create better tools for hiring and developing sales talent.

You will help:

• Organize sales role profiles
• Document what good performance looks like
• Support interview guides and candidate tools
• Help connect sales roles to onboarding and career paths

Support Leadership and Retention Work

Help support leaders and talent planning across the business.

You will help:

• Organize talent and 9-Box information
• Support retention and development planning
• Help prepare materials for leader discussions
• Summarize feedback from meetings or roundtables

Build Simple Tools the Team Can Use

Help turn ideas into practical resources.

You may help create:

• Onboarding checklists
• Communication templates
• Sales profile summaries
• Interview guides
• Team meeting summaries
• A final presentation with key takeaways and next steps

What You Will Gain

During this internship, you will get real exposure to HR work that connects directly to the business. You will learn how HR supports employees, managers, and leaders while helping build tools that improve how people are hired, onboarded, developed, and retained.

You will gain experience in:

• Human Resources project work
• Onboarding and employee experience
• Recruiting support and interview tools
• Talent development and leadership development
• Employee engagement and feedback
• Retention planning
• Cross-functional communication
• Building simple tools that support managers and employees

Preferred Background

This internship may be a good fit for a student pursuing a degree in:

• Human Resources
• Business
• Communications
• Psychology
• Organizational Development
• Management
• Or a related field

Internship Length

This is an 8+ week summer internship with the Culture & Growth Team.

Reporting Structure

This role will report to the Culture & Growth Team and work closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, business leaders, Central Operations, and Marketing / Internal Communications.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: 

Must have the ability to travel as needed. (Less than 10%) 

WHO WE ARE:

Mobile Communications America, Inc. (MCA) provides wireless communication, data and security solutions that enhance the safety, security, and efficiency of workplaces across the nation.  Customers trust us to provide a portfolio of turn-key systems, products, and services — including two-way radio communications, vehicle uplift, security video and access control systems, BDA/DAS, remote monitoring, GPS tracking, SCADA, dispatch, mass notification, and point-to-point wireless networks. Our more than 65,000 customers span industries such as public safety, commercial, manufacturing, education, healthcare, utilities, and government.   In addition to being the largest Motorola partner in the U.S., MCA has strategic partnerships with over 1,000 major manufacturers to offer an extensive portfolio of products and technologies.   

Since 2013, MCA acquired more than forty companies for both geographic density and technology portfolio diversity. These companies bring a combined industry experience of more than 75 years to build out a central corporate team and three operating divisions – Motorola (MSS), Data and Security. With more than 1350 employees and 85 locations throughout 13 states, we are there when our customers need us most. Our geographic footprint includes service centers across Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia with the capability to service national customers across the United States.  Our solution diversity and geographic footprint provide opportunities for employee growth and career development.

WHAT WE BELIEVE:

When you join our team, you join the MCA family!  We are better together through the MCA Way: living our core values of Service First, Growth, Teamwork, and Safety.  We take our work and our customers seriously and believe that our best work can also be fun. A component of our business that embodies the MCA advantage is our “Service First DNA” culture. Service isn’t just a motto for MCA, it’s an integral part of who we are and goes beyond our customers to our employees, partners, shareholder, and communities.  

NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the person assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, and physical demands required of personnel so classified.

Mobile Communications America, Inc. offers competitive compensation as well as comprehensive benefits to include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Paid Time Off (PTO), Holiday Pay and much more. 

Mobile Communications America, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity workplace and is an Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity.  At MCA, we are “better together.”