Over the past decade plus, Parker Dewey has helped companies scope thousands of Micro-Internship projects across industries, departments, and roles, and we've seen which ones attract strong applicants and which keep candidates engaged. We've also seen patterns emerge showing what gives a hiring manager a clear read on someone's skills, who’s going to accept the role, and who’s going to stay at the company. A good project spells out what "good" looks like so you can evaluate the work fairly. Knowing all of that is easy, but conjuring it from a blank page is another challenge entirely.
Most companies come to Parker Dewey knowing the role they want to fill and the obstacles that often arise, but often get stuck on scoping a fleshed-out project that actually works.
That's why we built our newly-launched Project Builder. You give it an existing job or internship description or a few bullets about what you need, and it generates a complete, ready-to-post project. Based upon your goals and over a decade of proprietary data from thousands of experiences, it scopes the deliverable, suggests the skills to look for, sets hours and pay, drafts your evaluation criteria, and writes screening questions tuned to the role. You simply review it, change anything you want, and post.
“Isn’t this just AI?” you might be thinking. It isn't built that way. Most tools that write a job post are trained to produce something that reads well, but Project Builder draws on Parker Dewey's proprietary data from over a decade of real projects. Rather than guessing at what a good project should sound like, it reflects what we've seen actually work, thousands of times over. Projects that don’t require you to manage them, but still provide engaging experiences for candidates. Projects that don’t require access to your data, but still provide insights on how someone will perform if hired. Projects that don’t require hours of effort screening, but let you see their skills firsthand.
Take the description you'd post on your website or job board, and instead of a wall of requirements, you get a short project that shows you what a candidate can really do. You come away with finished work and a genuine read on the person, often the start of a longer relationship and at a fraction of what a wrong hire costs.
Project Builder lives in your dashboard, in the same flow you already use to post a project. Once your project is live, reviewing and approving candidates works exactly as it does today. If you want to understand the thinking behind the scopes it generates, our guide on what makes a good Micro-Internship project breaks it down.
Ready to try it? Build your first project with Project Builder and see a fully scoped Micro-Internship in minutes.