Top Entry Level HR Jobs in Chicago, IL

The HR Generalist supports the employee lifecycle through onboarding, I-9 compliance, accommodations administration, timekeeping support, employment verifications, HRIS and employee-record maintenance, policy management, and HR knowledge-base improvements. This role serves as a primary contact for employee and manager inquiries, ensures accurate and confidential HR operations, and drives process improvements that enhance employee experience, compliance, scalability, and efficiency.

Talent community for HR, finance, and accounting professionals seeking short-term projects, interim leadership, fractional work, or full-time placements. HR roles include directors, managers, generalists, recruiters, employee relations, benefits, HRIS, and payroll professionals. Finance roles include CFOs, controllers, accounting managers, accountants, financial analysts, and AP/AR specialists. The organization provides personalized placement support, networking, professional development, and access to opportunities.

Participate in a paid, remote interview about your SMB’s payroll and HR software stack. Discuss administrative workflows, employee data and compensation management, software features, integrations, usability, competitor platforms, and challenges faced by SMB HR teams. Participants should be active HR, payroll, operations, or business professionals with direct experience evaluating, implementing, or administering HR and payroll systems.

Human Resources Specialist role sponsored through an H-1B Labor Condition Application. The position is based in San Francisco, California, and Charlestown, Massachusetts, with employment scheduled from October 19, 2026, through October 18, 2029. The posting does not provide specific responsibilities or qualifications.

Oversee the company’s human resources function, including HR policy development, compliance, escalations, labor and employment law compliance, and direct support for staffing customers and end clients. The role requires extensive HR expertise, experience supporting organizations of more than 1,000 employees, strong employment-law knowledge, and staffing-industry experience.

The HR Coordinator supports onboarding, personnel record maintenance, employment verification, HR inquiries, policy compliance, and orientation training. The role serves as a frontline contact for fulfillment center employees, maintains confidentiality, escalates employee relations concerns, assists with HRIS navigation, and supports small HR projects. Success requires strong organization, interpersonal skills, discretion, adaptability, and the ability to prioritize competing needs in a fast-changing environment.

Provides temporary coverage for day-to-day HR operations, including Workday data management, benefits administration, leave and accommodation coordination, audit support, offboarding, HR ticket resolution, invoice reconciliation, and compliance activities involving FMLA, ADA, ACA, and wage reporting.

One-year Human Resources development program featuring three HR rotations, mentorship, training, executive exposure, and early-career programming. Associates may work across HR business partnering, talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, development, shared services, and employee relations. Responsibilities include HR research, analytics, dashboards, compensation projects, leadership materials, colleague experience initiatives, acquisition integration, and diversity strategies. Successful graduates transition into full-time HR roles.

The 32-month Human Resources Development Program uses four eight-month rotations across HR functions, including talent acquisition, talent management, early careers, learning and development, total rewards, HR business partnering, and belonging. Participants support HR programs, collaborate with leaders, diagnose organizational needs, develop solutions, build professional connections, and receive coaching and senior-leader exposure. Successful participants gain broad HR capabilities and accelerated career growth opportunities.

The Human Resources Generalist supports recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, benefits administration, payroll processing, HRIS maintenance, performance management, training, policy development, and regulatory compliance. The role advises employees and managers, maintains confidential personnel data, processes semi-monthly payroll in Paylocity, supports organizational initiatives, and coordinates a positive new-hire experience across dental practices.

Supports project leadership and employees across HR operations, employee relations, investigations, performance management, onboarding, records management, compliance, payroll coordination, and exit meetings. Advises management on employment-law requirements, maintains confidential personnel information, resolves employee concerns, and recommends HR solutions. The role is primarily remote in Texas but requires travel as needed and schedule flexibility, including evenings and weekends.

Provide administrative support to People & Organization (P&O) including onboarding logistics, training and recruitment support, file maintenance, event and room booking, and assistance to senior leaders with travel, expense reports, and meeting coordination. Participate in continuous improvement and deliver small projects to increase department efficiency.

Participate in a rotational human resources development program supporting HR business partnering and specialist functions such as recruiting, compensation, employee relations, and development. Analyze workforce needs, develop HR solutions, support talent and training initiatives, improve recruiting and communication strategies, and complete hands-on projects with business leaders. The program includes formal training, networking, and potential international assignments before placement on a permanent HR team.

Responsible for supporting employee productivity, helping achieve organizational goals, and resolving workplace discrepancies among employees.

Own fractional people operations for a distributed international team. Responsibilities include multi-country payroll, contractor classification and tax documentation, recruiting pipeline management, onboarding and offboarding systems, access management, PTO tracking, SOPs, offer templates, and policy documentation. The role requires independently building scalable HR processes, using automation and AI to reduce recurring work, and coordinating across US, Central Asian, Georgian, and Latin American time zones.

Galaxy Ventures seeks to build a network of HR/People/Recruiting professionals for portfolio companies in the crypto industry, offering opportunities and networking events without commitment.

Support recruitment, candidate screening, interview coordination, onboarding, employee records, payroll inputs, leave tracking, compliance documentation, engagement programs, HR communications, and people analytics dashboards. The 6–12 month trainee program offers mentorship and potential conversion to a full-time HR Generalist role.

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The Graduate HR Generalist will support HR processes, manage HRIS, assist with onboarding, handle employee inquiries, and drive HR initiatives. They will also support payroll and benefits processing, conduct audits, and identify process improvements.