A Micro-Internship is a short-term project that can typically be completed within 10-40 hours and is due within a few weeks. These projects require limited on-boarding and can be completed by a student with minimal management. For the Isenberg Micro-Internship program, employers will have three interactions with students. 

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Isenberg School of Management Program will support organizations to host up to two 20-hour projects.

Thanks to generous donors of Isenberg's Office of Career Success, eligible organizations can work with current Isenberg undergraduate students on 20 or 40-hour projects.

Students are paid by Parker Dewey upon completion of the project.

If you have a longer project in mind, please contact Parker Dewey via the form below.

Employer Eligibility Criteria:

• Companies interested in providing UMass Isenberg students with opportunities to get valuable professional experience.

• Companies are encouraged to engage students on projects that align with their internship and full-time early career roles in marketing or financial services.
• Companies are expected to interact with their selected students at least 3 times during the course of the Micro-Internship.

Student Eligibility Criteria:

• This program is exclusively available to current Isenberg undergraduate students.

• For this pilot program, most students will be current sophomores.

• Students can only complete one Isenberg-funded project.

In short, it’s easy as Parker Dewey handles it all.  No HR burdens. No conversion fees. No questions about ownership or worries about confidentiality.

• Employment: Micro-Interns are not your employees, contractors, interns, temps, or freelancers. Similar to working with a consulting firm or any other service provider, you are engaging Parker Dewey LLC to complete the assignment, and each individual you select is a contractor or employee of Parker Dewey. You can still directly interact with them as much or little as you would like, and always have the opportunity to hire them directly without any costs or fees.
• Liability: We’re mission-driven and believe in the power of creating opportunities. That said, we take on all the liability. Not happy with the work product? We’ll give you a full refund or find an alternate Career Launcher. 
• Work Product: All work product is owned by you. 
• Confidentiality: While most projects involve public-facing information of a non-sensitive nature, both Parker Dewey and all Career Launchers sign strict NDAs to protect your information. In addition to the standard provisions, the students understand that they are risking their academic transcript or expulsion for any violation of confidentiality.
• Background Checks: Given the short-term nature and structure of these assignments, we do not conduct background checks. While companies are always welcome to conduct a background check directly, the nature of the specific assignments and lack of a direct relationship with the individual who is selected has caused most organizations to defer the background check until after a Micro-Internship is completed and a student is offered a traditional internship or full-time role.

Micro-Internships are not meant to replace traditional internship programs but rather complement and even supplement them. Due to their short-term nature, Micro-Internships can be used year-round to find on-demand project support while simultaneously allowing you to engage and evaluate potential talent.

Micro-Internships can be either on-site or virtual, depending on the specific requirements of the project. We typically suggest remote, as this provides more flexibility and accessibility.

Parker Dewey's Client Program team is dedicated to making sure that it's as easy to hire one Micro-Intern as it is to hire 100. Contact Parker Dewey to learn more.

To reach the Isenberg team, please contact Melissa Salva.