HR Graduate (Intern) - Chennai

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

As a HR Graduate at ICON, you will support various human resources functions and initiatives, gaining valuable experience in the field. You will collaborate with HR professionals to enhance employee engagement, recruitment, and development efforts within the organization.

What You Will Do You will take responsibility for human resources deliverables, applying your skills to ensure quality and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities Include

- Collaborating with HR CoE in setting up HR records for the recent joiner and rolling out employment contracts.
- Ensure new hires joining ICON are Compliance Screened
- Provide responses and guidance to new joiner with regular follow-ups on submission of documents to complete the onboarding.
- Co-deliver global background checks process, supporting HR CoE with reporting.
- Produce work that is accurate, thorough, and demonstrate compliance with sufficient analysis to meet the customers’ requirements, evidenced by minimal to nil re-work, escalations or quality feedback.
- Support various other HR process from hire to retire.
- Complete required volume of work & projects by deadlines, measured on meeting SLAs and delivery on projects and activities as assigned.
- Contribute to the creation of solutions to improve and standardize (globally where possible) the service by Identifying and recommending opportunities for improvements.
- Assess and allocate variable work that comes into the Service Centre
- Ensure Individual development and continual service improvements

Your Profile You will bring relevant human resources experience, along with the following qualifications and skills.

Required Qualifications And Experience





- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field
- Recognize, exemplify and adhere to ICON's values which centers around our commitment to People, Clients and Performance.
- Deliver services (both transactional and support) from the Portfolio of Services to internal customers (new hires and employees) within agreed serv ice levels
- Provide responses to and guidance to right through hiring cycle
- As a member of staff, the employee is expected to embrace and contribute to our culture of process improvement with a focus on streamlining our processes adding value to our business and meeting client needs.
- Work closely with TLs and Managers to ensure smooth transition and escalation of issues to them as required and to ensure that all issues raised by new hires / employees are followed up as appropriate
- As a member of the HR Service Centre provide outstanding customer service to all internal (and external) customers including any 3rd parties
- Contribute to the creation of solutions to improve and standardize (globally where possible) the service by identifying and recommending opportunities for improvement
- Assess and allocate variable work that comes into the Service Centre
- Ensure Individual development and continual service improvement
- Other duties as assigned

What ICON Can Offer You Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent. In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits.



Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our Benefits Examples Include

- Various annual leave entitlements
- A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
- Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers. At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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📌 HR Graduate (Intern) (Chennai)
🏢 ICON
📍 Chennai