How does recruiting in UX work?
Before going into my takeaways here is a guide that breaks it down well in terms of helping students as a whole (The Ultimate Product Design/UX Internship Recruiting Guide for Beginners - in reference with people credited at the bottom - whether practicing professionals, recruiters and the like).
For starters, let's look at roles. For roles, I'd look into:
"product design intern"
"ux design intern"
“design research intern”
“ux research intern”
and set alerts for those accordingly. (or product designer/ux designer for more people entering the field as a new grad or career transitioner).
Recognize when "product design" is involved, sometimes listings will ask for AutoCAD, and more engineering focused "product design". While that's product design, that's not what product design is in the digital product/ux design type setting. That's more engineering focused practices, so don't be mistaken with that when applying to roles (similarly see industrial designers, if you need a reference).
Companies vary but traditionally it may include any combination of the following steps: