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    September 23, 2024 - 13 tips for hiring students, recent grads for gig or freelance jobs but not through on-campus recruiting

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    September 3, 2024 - 8 Talent Tactics That Work

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    August 11, 2024 - New Graduates Navigate a Challenging Labor Market

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    July 10, 2024 - Salesforce Paid Internship | Salesforce and Talent Stacker Combine Forces

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    July 10, 2024 - Offer Training Opportunities to Find Workers with Skills You Seek

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    June 11, 2024 - The college with the richest graduates isn't an Ivy League school. Here are the top 100, based on data

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    April 30, 2024 - How a senior pursued her passions with goodwill Micro-Internship

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    April 25, 2024 - Career Center gives pointers for summer internships

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    March 30, 2024 - Internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one

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    March 30, 2024 - College internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one

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    March 25, 2024 - Human Cloud is building digital bridges to connect freelancers and small businesses, from Miami to the world

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    March 7, 2024 - Micro-Internships

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    February 15, 2024 - Need some extra hands? Check out the Kansas Micro-Internship Program

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    February 14, 2024 - FAMU Students Receive Nearly $130K in Micro-Internships

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    January 15, 2024 - 10 reasons why employers love Micro-Internships

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    January 2, 2024 - Micro-Internships Will Boost Your Resume & Career: Check Out Relevant Programs

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    December 14, 2023 - Micro-internships set to boom as cos, students look for right fit

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    December 5, 2023 - CPP plans to introduce micro-internships through the Academic Innovation Center

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    October 24, 2023 - Employers in Miami Tech Talent Coalition get down to business building tech pathways

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    October 18, 2023 - Defining experience: How micro internships build skills and boost productivity

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    October 12, 2023 - Three steps to unearth the hidden curriculum of networking

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    July 13, 2023 - Climb Credit Becomes the First and Only Student Lender to Connect Borrowers With Micro-Internships Through Parker Dewey

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    July 5, 2023 - Parker Dewey Review: Redefining the Internship Landscape Through Micro-Internships

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    June 29, 2023 - How Your Business Can Benefit From a Micro-Internship Program

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    May 12, 2023 - Job Hunting Tips and Strategies for 2023 Tech Graduates

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    April 25, 2023 - Micro-Internships: Help for Today, Talent for Tomorrow

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    March 24, 2023 - Short-term internships provide long-lasting results

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    Feb 7, 2023 - Externships & Job Shadowing: How They Can Help Your Job Search

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    Feb 1, 2023 - Keathley Pinney Brown ’24 Completes First Parker Dewey Micro-Internship

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    Dec 12, 2022 - Local entrepreneurs expand program to help Miami students find gigs today, prep for jobs of the future

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    October 22, 2022 - Unpaid internships face new scrutiny as barriers to careers

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    October 18, 2022 - Kansas businesses tapping into ‘micro’ interns

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    October 13, 2022 - Can the Gig Economy Actually Improve Employee Well-Being and Company Culture?

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    October 8, 2022 - Discussing job applications, résumés, cover letters, LinkedIn, and more with career expert Kim Ribich

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    October 7, 2022 - 10 More Staffing and Recruiting Startups to Watch

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    October 4, 2022 - It’s Budget Season: 5 Ways To Budget For Diversity In Tech

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    September 30, 2022 - Gen Z is pushing to end unpaid internships

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    September 29, 2022 - 9 Ways Using Career Services Helps You Manage Your Professional Life

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    September 23, 2022 - A Need to Succeed: What Students Want and Get From Internships

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    July 21, 2022 - Collaboration helping banks fill short-, long-term staffing needs

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    July 19, 2022 - Survey Shows That UMass Amherst Class of 2021 Finding Success After Graduation

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    June 24, 2022 - Greater Akron Chamber facilitates microinternships for members (reprinted in Open Campus)

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    June 6, 2022 - Companies including HubSpot, Salesforce, and PwC are reimagining internships for the remote and hybrid workplace

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    June 3, 2022 - Have You Heard of Micro-Internships? Learn More & Find One Now!

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    June 3, 2022 - To recruit workers, big employers team with historically Black colleges

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    May 23, 2022 - Don't Just Pay Interns, Help Them Build Networks

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    April 27, 2022 - Why it’s Important to Share Your Experiences

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    April 27, 2022 - The Micro Internship: a Virtual Experience with a Hands-On Outcome

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    April 27, 2022 - Opinion: Unpaid Internships Are Taking Advantage of College Students

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    April 7, 2022 - Op-Ed: Why Business and Higher Ed Need Each Other

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    March 28, 2022 - Real Experiences, Real Relationships (page 17)

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    March 10, 2022 - Greater Washington Partnership says it's on track to launch 45,000 into tech careers

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    February 8, 2022 - New short-term internship program to help students, businesses

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    February 1, 2022 - The Freelance Revolution Is Just Getting Started: Key Trends In 2022

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    February 2022 - Best Practice: FAMU Uses Micro-Internships to Create Mutual Outcomes for the FAMUly

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    December 10, 2021 - MassBay Community College & Open Avenues Foundation Launch Partnership

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    October 6, 2021 - Parker Dewey's New Report Uncovers College Student Sentiment on Virtual Recruiting; Experiential Learning Opportunities Critical for Early-Career Talent

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    August 12, 2021 - The win-win of 'micro-internships'

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    June 2021 - Didn't Get an Internship? Here Are 10 Things You Can Do to Boost Your Career Anyway

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    May 26, 2021 - It's Time to Officially End Unpaid Internships

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    May 2021 - How to Find, Land, and Succeed in a Virtual Internship

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    April 29, 2021 - Class of 2021: Four Ways to Help COVID-Era Grads Adapt to the Working World

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    April 29, 2021 - Priming the pump

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    March 22, 2021 - One Year of COVID: Higher Ed Will Never Be The Same Again…

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    March 4, 2021 - More companies offer paid internships as a way to recruit talented and skilled students

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    February 6, 2021 - Students face challenges getting hired during COVID-19

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    February 1, 2021 - Alumni networks reimagined

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    February 1, 2021 - Kansas Micro-Internship Project Grants

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    January 28, 2021 - Introducing the Top 50 Global Change Makers

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    December 9, 2020 - Keeping Talent in Indiana: The IT Capstone for College Completion

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    December 6, 2020 - The Challenges—and Rewards—of Deferring College During Covid

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    October 23, 2020 - Chicago companies expand recruiting reach with virtual internships. ‘Geography is off the table.’

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    October 12, 2020 - Micro-internships proving an attractive alternative in the COVID era

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    September 3, 2020 - University of Akron connecting students with micro-internships

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    August 19, 2020 - 77% of students want practical experience in next 6-months

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    August 18, 2020 - Seizing Your Second Chance at Online Teaching

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    August 12, 2020 - New Parker Dewey Sentiment Survey Reports Students Want Experiences That Allow for Career Exploration

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    August 4, 2020 - College Recruiting: “Why Diversity Hiring Programs Are Failing Us”

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    July 28, 2020 - 5 tips to help you land an internship during the COVID-19 pandemic

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    July 24, 2020 - Class of 2020 leaves Maryland colleges to find uniquely bleak job market crushed by pandemic, recession

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    July 24, 2020 - UWF starts 'micro-internship' program to help students during pandemic

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    July 9, 2020 - Report: How HSIs Support the Latinx Workforce

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    June 29, 2020 - Job pros expect fresh batch of internships to open up this summer

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    June 18, 2020 - Parker Dewey Helps Students Test-Drive Careers and Gain Experience with Micro-Internships that Also Benefit Employers

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    June 16, 2020 - Five ways for Gen Z members to learn or earn in a pandemic summer of busted plans

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    June 10, 2020 - How our micro-internships can help fill the COVID employment gap

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    June 8, 2020 - UC Riverside sees increase in jobs for its students even during coronavirus pandemic

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    May 27, 2020 - Marshall University offers micro-internships

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    May 27, 2020 - It's Not Too Late to Get a Virtual Internship

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    May 21, 2020 - Universities to Their Alumni Networks: Give Our Grads Jobs

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    May 20, 2020 - Micro-internships? 'Pod-Zooming'? How tech is doing remote internships this year

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    May 20, 2020 - How the Pandemic Could Fix Internships

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    May 19, 2020 - Soft Skills and Online Learning: Why Should We Care?

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    May 12, 2020 - 9 free apps college students can use to find a job or an internship

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    May 3, 2020 - Summer internship canceled? Not at these companies embracing virtual versions

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    May 1, 2020 - How to fill your talent pipeline in the age of social distancing

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    April 30, 2020 - Coronavirus Is Upending Internships for College Students. Here's What to Do If Yours Was Canceled

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    April 24, 2020 - Summer internships have dried up because of the pandemic. Here's how to get ahead without one

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    April 23, 2020 - How to score an internship during the COVID-19 pandemic

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    April 22, 2020 - Students among workers getting stiffed as many internships canceled. Here's how they can stay competitive

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    April 16, 2020 - Microsoft virtual internships to have 'lasting influence'

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    April 15, 2020 - Parker Dewey to help employers take internships remote

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    April 14, 2020 - As Cities Axe Summer Youth Work Programs, Here Are Alternatives to Consider

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    April 9, 2020 - Parker Dewey Announces Service to Help Organizations Manage Remote Internships in Response to COVID-19

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    March 27, 2020 - What to do about internships in light of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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    March 16, 2020 - The Benefits of Remote Work for Students

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    February 25, 2020 - Some recruiters regret relying on interviews

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    February 6, 2020 - Micro-Internships Build Work Experience and Resumes

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    February 3, 2020 - How Micro-Internships Can Help Underserved Students And Your Business

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    January 24, 2020 - Beyond Apprenticeships: Addressing the Broken College-to-Career Transition

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    January 22, 2020 - How experiential recruitment can land better hires

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    December 29, 2019 - This Year, Give Back: Mentor Someone

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    December 27, 2019 - How to get a job often comes down to one elite personal asset, and many people still don't realize it

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    December 11, 2019 - How recruiters can hit a home run

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    November 12, 2019 - Micro-Internships: A promising new on-ramp to a job?

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    October 31, 2019 - Apprenticeships are no silver bullet

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    October 25, 2019 - How to make employees out of interns

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    Fall, 2019 - Finding the right fit: Matching college students and grads to the right jobs

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    October 7, 2019 - Analysis: Student Supports Enhance Impact of Micro-Internships

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    September 26, 2019 - How to bridge the soft skills gap when recruiting Millennials

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    September 17, 2019 - Micro-Internships: Just a gig or a promising gateway?

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    September 10, 2019 - The Need For Discovery Gap Years, Microinternships As Students Choose College

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    September 5, 2019 - The new marketplaces connecting school and work

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    September 5, 2019 - 4 Way For Recruiters To Assess Soft Skills In Recent Grads

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    August 22, 2019 - This is how internships are shaping the future of work right now

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    August 19, 2019 - Forget Internships: Freelancing for New Student Populations

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    August 15, 2019 - Putting the Micro in Microsoft

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    August 14, 2019 - How Freelancing Is Influencing A Generation Of Employees

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    August 1, 2019 - Microinternships Are Becoming More Common

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    July 8, 2019 - How Micro-Internships Can Solve the Hiring Problem for College Graduates and Employers

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    June 28, 2019 - Soft Skills are Key to Defining Career Readiness and Success in Recent College Grads

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    June 17, 2019 - The Small-School Strivers Landing Big Jobs

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    June 14, 2019 - #THREETIPS: INTERN PROGRAMS

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    June 11, 2019 - Microsoft to expand micro-internship program

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    June 4, 2019 - From badges to performance reviews, here's how colleges are reinventing the Work-Study job

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    May 28, 2019 - Talent test-drive: Micro-internships may benefit students and employers alike

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    May 21, 2019 - Tech Advances, Automation Fueling Employers' Demand for 'Soft Skills

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    May 9, 2019 - Micro-Internships Are Anything But Micro

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    May 9, 2019 - Soft skills remain in top demand, especially at entry-level

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    April 19, 2019 - Microinternships Offer New College-to-Career Path

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    April 13, 2019 - We Can Do Better Than Varsity Blues

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    April 4, 2019 - College Recruiting: The Cost of Bad Hiring, and a Solution in Micro-Internships

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    March 26, 2019 - Micro-Internships: A Gig Economy Way to Find Great Young Talent

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    March 25, 2019 - Ramping up a Summer College Recruiting Program? Here’s What You Need to Know About Micro-Internships

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    March 19, 2018 - 5 Chicago edtech companies making life easier for students and recent grads

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    March 6, 2019 - Why Micro-Internships Will Be the Next Big Thing

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    March 5, 2019 - Micro-Internships at Governors State University

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    February 27, 2019 - The Importance of Empathy

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    February 25, 2019 - The latest educational innovation for career prep: micro-internships

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    February 15, 2019 - A new era of microcredentials and experiential learning

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    January 30, 2019 - Micro-Internships: A Powerful Tool for Talent Acquisition

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    January 15, 2019 - How ‘Micro-Internships’ Could Make All Types of Students More Employable

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    January 2019 - Micro-Internships Support 70,000 College Students Across Illinois

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    Winter 2018 - An Interview with Jeffrey Moss

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    October 2018 - Emerging Pathways Between Education and Work

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    October 2018 - The Chemistry of High Performance

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    September 13, 2018 - Bootstrapping in America: Jeffrey Moss of Parker Dewey

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    Fall 2018 - Parker Dewey named as a winner of the 17th annual Chicago Innovation Awards

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    August 27, 2018 - Old Gateway Jobs Are Disappearing: Try Freelancing Your Way Into Your Dream Company

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    July 30, 2018 - Do Student Freelancers Make Better Employees? Microsoft Thinks So

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    June 13, 2018 - Settling for a subpar job right out of college can hurt your career for years

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    June 27, 2018 - Introducing the Micro-Internship

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    April 24, 2018 - The Gig Trend: One Surefire Way To Know You Hired Right

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    February 21, 2018 - A winning combination: Internships educate students and companies

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    February 13, 2018 - Meet Jeffrey Moss of Parker Dewey

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    December 14, 2017 - This Chicago Startup Wants to Help Recent Grads Kickstart Their Careers

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    September 6, 2017 - Why Projects Improve the Hiring Process

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    August 31, 2017 - Liberal Arts and STEM? Better Together

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    July 27, 2017 - Rising to the Top

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    March 6, 2017 - 6 Overlooked Ways Small Companies Can Compete for Big Talent

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    Spring 2017 - Career Partnerships

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    February 13, 2017 - College of Liberal Arts opens career center

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    May 4, 2016 - Bootstrapping in America: Jeffrey Moss of Parker Dewey