Greater Rochester Chamber Micro-Internships
The Greater Rochester Chamber's Micro-Internship program provides Rochester-area businesses with opportunities to engage college students or recent grads on short-term, paid, professional projects. Beyond the on-demand support, this also helps companies identify, engage, and assess potential hires.
Through these projects, you can connect with local students and recent grads either virtually or on-site. Students are highly motivated to gain valuable, paid, professional experiences to help launch their careers.
Watch the replay of our informational webinar to learn more.
Featured Projects
To help you get started, we have featured several projects that can all be completed at no-cost to you. Clicking the project name will take you over to the Parker Dewey platform and allow you to make edits before posting your project. Have questions? Complete the form above, and a member of the Parker Dewey team will help.

Post a Custom Project
Click on the link above to create your own project. If you need help, please reach out at info@parkerdewey.com.

Social Media Content Calendar
Creating a quality social media content calendar is time consuming. Give an eager student the opportunity to develop it for you.

Email Marketing Campaign
Engage a student to help you draft a series of emails to help promote an upcoming initiative.

Market Research
Leverage a student or recent graduate’s attention to detail to identify key drivers of success or failure within your market.

Sourcing Candidates
Do you have openings to fill and are struggling to find the right candidates? Let a college student do some of the legwork for you.

Lead Generation
A college student or research grad can do the research to help you identify new leads so you can focus on other priorities.

Data Cleansing
Get help from college students and recent grads to review, update, and correct your database records while you move on to more pressing tasks.

Content Creation
When you have content ideas but no time for the first pass, look to the research and writing skills of college students.
How it Works




Frequently Asked Questions
A Micro-Internship is a short-term project that can typically be completed within 10-40 hours and is due within a few days to a few weeks. These projects require no on-boarding and can be completed by a college student with minimal instruction. These are important but low-risk tasks that aren’t the best use of your time.
You set the price for each project. All projects are fixed-fee, and most are listed between $200-$600, typically implying $15-20 per hour based on estimated hours of work. 90% of this fee goes directly to the intern, and there are no obligations or other fees even if the relationship turns into an internship or full-time role.
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.
Plus, if you love your Micro-Intern and want to hire them for an internship or full-time role on your team, there are no costs to bring them on board.
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.
The best Micro-Internships do not require hands-on management to be completed. Career Launchers on Parker Dewey have core skills and are highly motivated to exceed expectations. During the Micro-Internship, the project manager—whether a hiring manager, team lead, or another employee—can engage the student however is best including email, Zoom, etc.
Our 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 us to learn more about Micro-Internship programs.