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About Parker Dewey

We started with a simple belief: motivated people deserve a fair shot.

The way most companies hire early-career talent is broken. Résumés filter out the wrong people, interviews test for confidence instead of competence, and internship programs at big companies go to students from a handful of schools. Parker Dewey was built to fix that by creating a way for any motivated student to demonstrate their skills through real work, and for any employer to find great talent they wouldn’t have found any other way.

Ten years in, that belief hasn't changed. The platform has grown, the network has expanded, but the reason we exist is the same.

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We connect employers with early-career talent through real, paid project work.

Parker Dewey is a managed early-career hiring service. We design and run project-based programs that let employers evaluate candidates through real work before making a hire, and let students demonstrate their skills to companies that want to find them. Every project is paid. Every engagement is managed end-to-end. And every outcome gives both sides more information than a résumé or interview ever could.
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A nationwide network built over a decade.

Students on Parker Dewey come from community colleges, HBCUs, bootcamps, large state universities, and small liberal arts schools. When an employer posts a project, it reaches candidates well beyond the usual suspects.

  • 3,000+ schools, universities, and post-secondary programs

  • Students across every major, background, and institution type

  • Employers across industries from Fortune 500s to emerging startup

Access shouldn't depend on who you know or where you went to school.

Parker Dewey's model is inherently more equitable than traditional hiring—not because we say so, but because the mechanism works that way. When hiring is based on real work output rather than résumé signals, GPA filters, or school prestige, a wider range of candidates gets a fair shot. We've seen it in the data for 10 years.

Gigs for Good extends this further, connecting underserved students with funded project opportunities through foundation partnerships, so that financial barriers don't prevent access to meaningful early-career experience.
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