2025 L’Oréal USA Human Resources (NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY) Summer Internship - Undergraduate

HR Summer Internship 2025

­­Who We Are:

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L’Oréal, Human Resources is an incubator of talent where we find, recruit, and develop brilliant minds around the world. We provide expertise on topics like organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, pay, HR advice, learning & development, well-being, and talent acquisition among others. Come join our dynamic team and help us elevate the employee journey!

What You Will Learn:

• Own an individual project with strategic business impact that you present to senior leaders
• Analyze data, identify root causes, and recommend solutions for HR related business issues
• Experience hands-on HR generalist responsibilities, working with multiple HRIS and reporting systems
• Follow up and solicit feedback from employees on a regular basis with a “customer service” orientation and ability to escalate issues when appropriate
• Engage our teams in sharing best HR practices
• Network and learn about multiple functions (Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, R&I and Sales)
• Participate in formal and informal training opportunities
  
  

What We Are Looking For:

• Minimum Requirements:
• Currently enrolled in a 4-year college or university pursuing a bachelor’s degree with an expected graduation between December 2024 – July 2025
• Able to start working fulltime starting July 2025 upon graduation with your bachelor’s degree
• Legally authorized to work in the US on a fulltime, permanent, and ongoing basis without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
• Willing to relocate to any USA-based office that has a summer internship opportunity, including Northern New Jersey or New York City and have the flexibility to travel between both locations.
• Stand Out Qualifications:
• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree with a total GPA of 3.0 or higher
• Available to work the entirety of the 11-week summer internship program in 2024.
• Showcased ability to work in a professional, dynamic environment through previous internship or relevant work experience. This includes part-time work, work study, side-gigs, freelancing, volunteering, summer work, or internships
• Demonstrated leadership ability and interest in HR through your academics, extra-curricular activities, or professional/volunteer work
• Established self-awareness, in terms of understanding your own culture, identity, biases, prejudices, power, privilege and stereotypes
• Strong interest in a career path in HR and learning more about HR generalist responsibilities
• Skills Key to Success in HR:
• Excellent communication skills, effectively working with cross-functional teams
• Takes initiative with sound judgment and decision making skills
• Demonstrates out of the box thinking and pushes boundaries
• Resilient and persistent with an attention to detail
• Ability to multitask, analyze, and solve complex issues in a fast-paced environment
  

The Program:

• This is a paid internship opportunity. Housing assistance is provided on an individual basis based on eligibility per our L'Oréal Relocation Policy.
• All interns will be paired with a mentor and a buddy to help guide you through your internship
• Professional development & social programming is an integral part of your internship experience to understand our culture. From networking events to trainings, your calendar will always be full!
• There are many perks to being a summer intern, but two standout ones are access to our company store that has steep discounts on L’Oréal products and our Summer Friday program – every Friday during your internship is a half day!
• Our summer internship is the primary path for consideration into L’Oréal’s full-time HR Management Trainee Program upon graduation and is based on overall performance
  
  

Salary Range: $22-$26.50

Being a member of the L’Oréal USA Summer Internship Program, you will feel empowered to contribute in tangible, meaningful ways from day one because in an organization founded on entrepreneurism and agility, your ideas are not only heard and valued, but they are often put into implementation, too. As the #1 Beauty Tech company in the world with over 35 international brands – CeraVe, Kiehl’s, Maybelline, and Urban Decay to name just a few – we embrace diversity and inclusion, sustainability, innovation, and well-being in the workplace to lay the groundwork for you to be able to accomplish great things. You can explore our internship program and hear directly from our past interns at lorealoncampus.com.

Freedom to go beyond, that’s the beauty of L’Oréal - Are you ready?

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to access job openings or apply for a job on this site as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by contacting USApplicationAccommodation@support.lorealusa.com. If you need assistance to accommodate a disability, you may request an accommodation at any time.

Our Safe Together Plan: Your safety is our highest priority. We will proceed with caution and adhere to enhanced protection standards to ensure our sites are safe for all employees. We must all operate with the shared responsibility for each other’s health & safety in mind.

At L'Oréal, whether you are an intern, manager, or senior leader, the most valuable asset we have is you. Your unique sense of curiosity, creative mindset, and desire to innovate are what we expect you to bring with you every day. 

The L’Oréal USA Summer Internship Program is a paid, 11-week experience where you will be fully integrated into the day-to-day activities of a team while also leading your own, individual strategic project to discover what it is truly like to develop a career at the world’s #1 Beauty company. We are committed to giving our interns the space to explore, to have full time employee responsibilities, present their own insights to senior management, and to become future leaders. At the end of the summer, you will present your project to senior leadership for the opportunity to be considered for a full-time return offer into our Management Trainee program.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so it is highly encouraged to apply sooner rather than later before the September 30, 2024, deadline. We encourage students of diverse backgrounds to apply, including, but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender expression, LGBTQ+, military status, and people with disabilities.

What You’ll Do:

• Own an individual project with strategic business impact that you present to senior leaders
• Analyze data, identify root causes, and recommend solutions for HR related business issues
• Experience hands-on HR generalist responsibilities, working with multiple HRIS and reporting systems
• Follow up and solicit feedback from employees on a regular basis with a “customer service” orientation and ability to escalate issues when appropriate
• Engage our teams in sharing best HR practices
• Network and learn about multiple functions (Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, R&I and Sales)
• Participate in formal and informal training opportunities
  
  

Who You Are:

• Minimum Requirements:
• Currently enrolled in a 4-year college or university pursuing a bachelor’s degree with an expected graduation between December 2025 – July 2026 in:
• Able to start working fulltime starting September 2026 upon graduation with your bachelor’s degree
• Legally authorized to work in the US on a fulltime, permanent, and ongoing basis without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
• Willing to relocate to any USA-based office that has a summer internship opportunity, including Northern New Jersey or New York City and have the flexibility to travel between both locations. Location placements are based on business needs.
  
  

• Stand Out Qualifications:
• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree with a total GPA of 3.0 or higher
• Available to work the entirety of the 11-week summer internship program in 2024.
• Showcased ability to work in a professional, dynamic environment through previous internship or relevant work experience. This includes part-time work, work study, side-gigs, freelancing, volunteering, summer work, or internships
• Demonstrated leadership ability and interest in HR through your academics, extra-curricular activities, or professional/volunteer work
• Established self-awareness, in terms of understanding your own culture, identity, biases, prejudices, power, privilege and stereotypes
• Strong interest in a career path in HR and learning more about HR generalist responsibilities
  
  

• Skills Key to Success in HR:
• Excellent communication skills, effectively working with cross-functional teams
• Takes initiative with sound judgment and decision making skills
• Demonstrates out of the box thinking and pushes boundaries
• Resilient and persistent with an attention to detail
• Ability to multitask, analyze, and solve complex issues in a fast-paced environment
  

The Program:

• This is a paid internship opportunity. Housing assistance is provided on an individual basis based on eligibility per our L'Oréal Relocation Policy.
• All interns will be paired with a mentor and a buddy to help guide you through your internship
• Professional development & social programming is an integral part of your internship experience to understand our culture. From networking events to trainings, your calendar will always be full!
• There are many perks to being a summer intern, but two standout ones are access to our company store that has steep discounts on L’Oréal products and our Summer Friday program – every Friday during your internship is a half day!
• Our summer internship is the primary path for consideration into L’Oréal’s full-time HR Management Trainee Program upon graduation and is based on overall performance
  
  

Salary Range: $24.00 - $28.50/hr

About L’oreal

Innovation has fueled L'Oréal’s business for more than 100 years and we will rely on our culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to help us continually evolve. L'Oréal’s dynamic culture provides its employees with entrepreneurial freedom and opportunities to drive transformation across its €29.87B business, encompassing over 35 brands, around the globe. In the US, we have 12,000 employees working collaboratively across 14 states to build leading edge technologies, launch highly personalized products, reimagine consumer experiences, and develop creative solutions to reduce our environmental footprint.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application for a recognized disability under applicable law, please email USApplicationAccommodation@support.lorealusa.com. Please note this email will only respond to specific requests for assistance completing the application as a request for accommodation for a disability. All others will not be considered.

Get an insider's look at what it's really like to intern at L'Oréal, and discover how our programs can launch your career. Register for our exclusive masterclass, "Your Future Starts Now: L'Oréal USA Early Careers Masterclass" on September 11th at 6:30-8:00pm EST!