Talent Acquisition Internship Application Form

Streamline Your Talent Acquisition Internship Applications with Paperform

Finding the right talent acquisition intern can transform your HR team's productivity. Whether you're a growing startup, an established corporation, or a recruitment agency, this Talent Acquisition Internship Application Form template is designed to help you identify candidates with the right mix of recruiting fundamentals, technical skills, and cultural alignment.

Why This Template Works for HR Teams

Talent acquisition is evolving fast. Today's TA interns need more than enthusiasm—they need familiarity with applicant tracking systems, Boolean search techniques, diversity recruiting best practices, and the ability to connect with campus communities. This template helps you screen for exactly those competencies while creating a smooth, professional application experience that reflects well on your employer brand.

Built with Paperform's intuitive doc-style editor, this form captures everything from basic contact details and education background to specific recruiting skills and scenario-based questions. Conditional logic ensures you only ask relevant follow-up questions, keeping the experience focused and respectful of applicants' time.

Perfect for HR Teams, Recruiters, and Talent Leaders

This template is ideal for:

• HR managers and talent acquisition teams at companies hiring their first or next TA intern
• Recruitment agencies building internship programs to develop future consultants
• Staffing and recruitment firms seeking junior talent with technical recruiting aptitude
• Campus recruiting coordinators looking for students to support university hiring initiatives
• Diversity and inclusion teams wanting interns who understand equitable hiring practices

What Makes This Template Stand Out

Unlike generic internship applications, this form is purpose-built for talent acquisition roles. It assesses:

• ATS proficiency: Questions about experience with platforms like Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, or other systems
• Boolean search skills: Understanding of search operators, sourcing techniques, and LinkedIn Recruiter familiarity
• Diversity recruiting knowledge: Awareness of inclusive hiring practices, bias mitigation, and equitable candidate outreach
• Campus recruiting interest: Passion for university partnerships, student engagement, and early career hiring
• Communication and collaboration: Scenario questions that reveal how candidates handle stakeholder relationships and candidate experience

The form flows naturally from basic qualifications through technical skills, then into thoughtful prompts that reveal problem-solving ability and cultural fit. You can customize every question to match your company's values, internship structure, and hiring priorities.

Automate Your Internship Hiring Workflow

Once a candidate submits their application, Paperform makes it easy to keep your hiring process moving. Send custom confirmation emails, route applications to different team members based on qualifications, and sync submissions directly into your ATS or HR tools via native integrations with platforms like BambooHR, Greenhouse, or Airtable.

Want to take it further? Connect this form to Stepper, Paperform's AI-native workflow builder, to automatically:

• Score applicants based on their responses and flag top candidates
• Send applications to hiring managers for review and collect feedback
• Schedule interviews with qualified candidates
• Update your project management tools or internal dashboards in real time
• Trigger onboarding steps once an intern is selected

With Stepper, your internship application doesn't just collect data—it kicks off an entire, hands-free recruitment workflow that saves your team hours every week.

Designed for a Positive Candidate Experience

First impressions matter, especially in recruiting. This template is designed to look polished and professional right out of the box, with a clean layout, friendly language, and progress indicators (if you enable multi-page mode) so applicants know how much time they'll need.

You can fully customize the theme—fonts, colors, button styles, and background—to match your employer brand. Embed the form on your careers page, share it via a custom domain, or distribute the link through campus job boards and LinkedIn. However candidates find you, they'll have a smooth, mobile-friendly experience that reflects the quality of your organization.

Built for SMBs and Growing Teams

Paperform is trusted by over 500,000 teams worldwide and is SOC 2 Type II compliant, giving you the security and reliability you need without enterprise complexity. Whether you're a 10-person startup or a 500-person scale-up, you get the same powerful features: conditional logic, integrations, custom branding, and workflow automation—all without writing a single line of code.

Plus, with AI-powered form building, you can tweak questions, add new sections, or generate complex logic rules just by describing what you need. And once applications roll in, use AI Insights to summarize responses, spot trends, and quickly identify your strongest candidates.

Who Should Use This Template

This form is perfect for:

• HR professionals and talent acquisition specialists looking to hire interns with recruiting-specific skills
• Recruiters and sourcing leads building a pipeline of future TA talent
• Staffing and recruitment agencies developing internship or rotational programs
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion teams seeking interns to support inclusive hiring initiatives
• Campus recruiting coordinators at universities or within corporate talent teams

Get Started in Minutes

This template is ready to use right away. Simply customize the questions to fit your internship program, update the theme to match your brand, and share the link. Applications will flow into your Paperform dashboard, where you can review, filter, export, or route them into your existing recruitment stack.

With Paperform, you're not just collecting applications—you're building a best-in-class hiring experience that attracts top talent and sets your team up for long-term success.

Ready to find your next talent acquisition superstar? Use this template to start accepting applications today.