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Reach the right candidates. Keep them engaged. Hire with real evidence.

Parker Dewey designs, manages, and runs paid, project-based hiring programs, so you build awareness with early-career talent, keep them engaged through the process, and see real work before you decide.

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The problem

Get in front of candidates before your competitors do.

Campus recruiting is starting earlier than ever, with some employers making offers to students up to two years in advance. Committing that far ahead may not be the right answer, but waiting for the traditional recruiting season may be too late. Parker Dewey helps you build relationships earlier through real work and gain evidence before you hire.

Trane Technologies used Micro-Internships to build brand awareness with students, assess candidates for longer-term roles, and get ad-hoc project support, all through the same program.

"The intent is to build some familiarity with our brand," says Shannon Wade, Early Career Recruiting Lead. "However, getting a work output on top of that is the icing on the cake, and every time, we've derived value from the work the students produce."

Shannon WadeEarly Career Recruiting Lead, Trane Technologies

How it works

Candidates engage because the work is real.

You define what needs to get done, or have us build it for you. We put your project in front of candidates from our network of 3,000+ schools — candidates who apply because the work interests them, not because an algorithm matched them to a listing. We manage the engagement and give you the structure to evaluate each candidate's work, so what comes back is a real hiring signal, not a gut feeling. It's a working interview, so you can measure exactly what matters.

  1. Tell us your goal

    A role to fill, a skill to assess, or work to get done

  2. We open your project

    To candidates across 3,000+ schools who are excited to apply

  3. See real performance

    Candidates complete real, paid work, and you see how they actually perform

  4. Decide with confidence

    We deliver structured feedback and candidate insights, and you decide who moves forward

How we work with employers

Operational simplicity

We built it so your team doesn’t have to.

  • Compliance and worker classification

    Handled

  • Payroll and payments

    We’re the employer of record

  • Candidate sourcing

    Through our network of 3,000+ schools and programs

  • Project design

    Over a decade of data to define the right scope and deliverables

  • IP and NDAs

    All work product belongs to your organization

  • Your time investment

    As light as 15 minutes, as involved as you want to be

Solutions

However you’re approaching early-career hiring, there’s a way Parker Dewey can help.

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Companies you know are already hiring this way.

Trane Technologies completed 25+ project-based assessments and made full-time hires from universities they had never recruited from before.

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Ready to see how it works for your team?

Talk to our team about your early-career hiring goals. We'll show you how a project-based program can fit into what you're already doing and where it can go further.

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