GETTING STARTED GUIDE
Welcome to Parker Dewey+. We are so excited to deepen our partnership with your institution through this tool and hope it will be a valuable resource for you. The guide below shares step-by-step instructions for using and navigating Parker Dewey+.
In this inaugural year of Parker Dewey+, we welcome you to share feedback, ideas and other suggestions for how we can make this even more valuable for you. Please contact schools@parkerdewey.com if we can help in any way.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- Becoming a Parker Dewey+ Partner
- Ways to Use Parker Dewey+
- Navigating Parker Dewey+
- Support
BECOMING A PARKER DEWEY+ PARTNER
Learn More
Parker Dewey+ is a premium level of partnership available to universities in the United States. Exciting tools and functionalities available with Parker Dewey+ include:
- An administrative dashboard
- The ability to view student profiles
- On-demand data access
- Employer Engagement Support
LEARN MORE ABOUT PARKER DEWEY+
First Step: Interest Form
If haven't already, and would like to move forward with Parker Dewey+ Partnership, fill out our interest form to get started. Once your response is received, we’ll send you the Terms of Service and recommended next steps.
WAYS TO USE PARKER DEWEY+
Student-Facing Uses
Click on any of the topics below to learn more.
- Make use of the 'Parker Dewey+ exclusive' benefits highlighted in the PD+ Student-Facing Partner Checklist (CLICK HERE)
- Post a Parker Dewey Ambassador Micro-Internship for one of your students (CLICK HERE)
- Coach students during one-on-one advising sessions (CLICK HERE)
- Conduct proactive outreach to students in need of support (CLICK HERE)
- Include school-specific data in your student-facing resource presentations (CLICK HERE)
- Promote Parker Dewey using school-specific opportunities and stories (CLICK HERE)
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Make use of the 'Parker Dewey+ exclusive' benefits highlighted in the PD+ Student-Facing Partner Checklist
Our Parker Dewey Partner Checklists highlight the steps we recommend for making the most of your Parker Dewey partnership, including resources exclusively available to you as a Parker Dewey+ partner. We encourage you to visit our Partner Checklist page and review the student-facing checklist.
Post a Parker Dewey Ambassador Micro-Internship for one of your students
Have a current student student help you spread the word about Parker Dewey Micro-Internships! We've made it easy for you by outlining the recommended tasks for this 20-hour Micro-Internship, and having a template ready for you to post. Because the tasks involve promotion to both the Micro-Intern's peers as well as employers, we recommend collaborating with your employer engagement team when making a selection and supervising the Micro-Intern.
Just like all Parker Dewey Micro-Internships, the selected Micro-Intern will be paid for their efforts. The source of the payment depends on how you came to have access to Parker Dewey+:
- If your institution is paying for a Parker Dewey program, you can choose to have the cost of this Micro-Internship ($400) deducted from the allocated program funds. To do this, add the name of your program in the 'Affiliations' section when posting the Micro-Internship.
- If your institution is paying only for Parker Dewey+, the cost of this Micro-Internship ($400) is included in the cost of your subscription.
- If your institution has access to Parker Dewey+ via an externally funded program (ie: The Kansas Micro-Internship Program or the DeLuca program), the cost of a Student Ambassador is not covered, and your institution would be invoiced for the $400 cost of selecting a Student Ambassador Micro-Intern.
At the links below, read more about the benefits of hiring a Parker Dewey Student Ambassador Micro-Intern, and access step-by-step instructions for posting this Micro-Internship.
PARKER DEWEY STUDENT AMBASSADOR BENEFITS
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: POSTING THIS MICRO-INTERNSHIP
Coach students during one-on-one advising sessions
Parker Dewey+ offers you a unique view of the level of completeness and quality your students are putting forth in their Parker Dewey profiles and Micro-Internship applications. This inside look includes the ability to view their profile, application responses, and feedback they've received for any Micro-Internships they may have already completed. By viewing what projects they've applied for in the past, you can even take the opportunity to role play how different responses might have resulted in different outcomes.
At the link below, access step-by-step instructions for viewing student profiles and applications.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: VIEWING PROFILES AND APPLICATIONS
Conduct proactive outreach to students in need of support
Download your 'All Students' report to identify those who have applied for 10 or more projects without success. Often, those who fall in this category have an incomplete profile or could use support with their application responses. Here’s an email template with resources you can use to reach out to them.
At the link below, access step-by-step instructions for viewing student profiles and applications.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: DOWNLOADING REPORTS
Include school-specific data in your student-facing presentations
When highlighting Parker Dewey as an institutional resource, we have a single-slide presentation template you can easily incorporate into existing templates for a concept overview. As a Parker Dewey+ partner, we also encourage you to include additional slides with some information specific to your institution. Below are some suggestions:
- Demonstrate Accessibility: Under the 'Impact Report' tab, download a report that shows the range of students that are signing up and getting selected, including diversity by academic year, major, and other demographic information.
- Highlight the Range of Opportunities: Under the 'Student Data' tab, download a 'Selected for Projects' report to show companies that have previously selected your students for Micro-Internships and the titles of projects that those students have completed.
- Emphasize Timeliness: Under the 'Employer Data' tab, download 'Projects Featured for Your School', 'Projects Exclusive to Your School', and 'All Open Micro-Internships' reports to highlight Micro-Internship projects that are currently available.
At the links below, access step-by-step instructions for finding these reports in Parker Dewey and downloading them.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: NAVIGATING PARKER DEWEY+ REPORTS DASHBOARD
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: DOWNLOADING REPORTS
Promote Parker Dewey using school-specific opportunities and stories
While there is already plenty of ready-to-use student-facing content in our Marketing Toolkit, as a Parker Dewey+ partner, you have a unique opportunity to highlight school-specific opportunities and successes when promoting Parker Dewey to your students. Below are examples of how your Parker Dewey+ access can help:
- Under the 'Employer Data' tab, download 'Projects Featured for Your School', 'Projects Exclusive to Your School', and 'All Open Micro-Internships' reports to see currently available opportunities, then use the email, social and newsletter links at the top of your 'Dashboard view' to access templates that make it easy to promote specific Micro-Internship projects.
- Download the 'Selected for Projects' and 'Feedback Report' reports under the 'Student Data' tab to identify students who may be a good fit for success stories. Use our Parker Dewey interview and image templates to collect and share the resulting stories. Make sure to also send the story to schools@parkerdewey.com - we love to see and share your success!
At the links below, access step-by-step instructions for finding these reports in Parker Dewey and downloading them.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: NAVIGATING PARKER DEWEY+ REPORTS DASHBOARD
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: DOWNLOADING REPORTS
EMPLOYER-FACING USES
Click on any of the topics below to learn more.
- Make use of the 'Parker Dewey+ exclusive' benefits highlighted in the PD+ Employer-Facing Partner Checklist (CLICK HERE)
- Post a Parker Dewey Ambassador Micro-Internship for one of your students (CLICK HERE)
- Understand employer engagement and needs (CLICK HERE)
- Share with employers in one-on-one conversations and presentations (CLICK HERE)
- Promote Parker Dewey using school-specific stories (CLICK HERE)
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Make use of the 'Parker Dewey+ exclusive' benefits highlighted in the PD+ Employer-Facing Partner Checklist
Our Parker Dewey Partner Checklists highlight the steps we recommend for making the most of your Parker Dewey partnership, including resources exclusively available to you as a Parker Dewey+ partner. We encourage you to visit our Partner Checklist page and review the employer-facing checklist.
Post a Parker Dewey Ambassador Micro-Internship for one of your students
Have a current student student help you spread the word about Parker Dewey Micro-Internships! We've made it easy for you by outlining the recommended tasks for this 20-hour Micro-Internship, and having a template ready for you to post. Because the tasks involve promotion to both employers as well as the Micro-Intern's peers, we recommend collaborating with your student-facing team when making a selection and supervising the Micro-Intern.
Just like all Parker Dewey Micro-Internships, the selected Micro-Intern will be paid for their efforts. The source of the payment depends on how you came to have access to Parker Dewey+:
- If your institution is paying for a Parker Dewey program, you can choose to have the cost of this Micro-Internship ($400) deducted from the allocated program funds. To do this, add the name of your program in the 'Affiliations' section when posting the Micro-Internship.
- If your institution is paying only for Parker Dewey+, the cost of this Micro-Internship ($400) is included in the cost of your subscription.
- If your institution has access to Parker Dewey+ via an externally funded program (ie: The Kansas Micro-Internship Program or the DeLuca program), the cost of a Student Ambassador is not covered, and your institution would be invoiced for the $400 cost of selecting a Student Ambassador Micro-Intern.
At the links below, read more about the benefits of hiring a Parker Dewey Student Ambassador Micro-Intern, and access step-by-step instructions for posting this Micro-Internship.
PARKER DEWEY STUDENT AMBASSADOR BENEFITS
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: POSTING THIS MICRO-INTERNSHIP
Understand Employer Engagement and Needs
Parker Dewey+ allows you to view which employers have demonstrated interest in recruiting your students. The following reports are most helpful in understanding the actions that employers have already taken to engage your students and recent graduates.
- 'Company Sign Ups' (found under the 'Employer Data' tab): See which employers have created a Parker Dewey account via your school’s landing page. They may or may not have already taken the next step of posting a Micro-Internship, but even if they haven't yet, creating an account from your page demonstrates an interest in engaging and recruiting your students.
- 'Projects Exclusive to Your School' (found under the 'Employer Data' tab): View currently available Micro-Internships that are exclusively available to students and recent graduates from your institution. This report also shows:
- Start/due dates: These are the date the company is hoping to make a Micro-Intern selection and the date the company is hoping for the project to be completed. Please be aware that not all companies wait until the listed start date to make a selection. Some may select their Micro-Intern as soon as they receive a qualified candidate, even if the project has only been posted for a few hours at that point.
- # of applicants: If this number is low, we recommend quickly connecting with your student-facing colleague(s) to make more students aware of the opportunity.
- Payment amount: This is the total amount the company pays per Micro-Intern. The selected Micro-Intern will be paid 90% of this total by Parker Dewey.
- 'Students Selected' (found under the 'Student Data' tab): See a list of the companies who have worked with your students. If there are employers there who you do not have contact information for yet, and you want to establish a relationship and make sure they're aware of additional opportunities to recruit your students, reach out to Parker Dewey. We’re happy to make an introduction.
Not seeing a lot of information in the above reports yet? Promotion of Parker Dewey to your existing employers and alumni is key! Make sure you're completing the recommended steps in our Employer-Facing Parker Dewey+ Partnership Checklist to spread the word and create more Micro-Internship opportunities for your students.
At the links below, access step-by-step instructions for navigating Parker Dewey+ and downloading reports referenced above.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: NAVIGATING PARKER DEWEY+
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: DOWNLOADING REPORTS
Share with Employers in One-On-One Conversations and Presentations
When discussing recruiting options with employers, whether in conversations or overview presentations of recruiting resources at your institution, Parker Dewey+ allows you to easily highlight the range of talent at your institution that are interested in the real-world experience and flexibility that are hallmarks of Micro-Internships.
For more formal presentations, we recommend incorporating this single slide from our Marketing Toolkit, but as a Parker Dewey+ partner, we also encourage you to include additional slides with some information specific to your institution.
Share the 'User Graduation Date' and 'Student Demographics' data from the Dashboard of your Parker Dewey+ Account to demonstrate the diversity of talent seeking these opportunities. If your students have already done multiple Micro-Internships, you can also share the employer feedback data to emphasize the quality of work completed by your students and recent graduates.
At the links below, access step-by-step instructions for navigating Parker Dewey+ and downloading reports.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: NAVIGATING PARKER DEWEY+
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: DOWNLOADING REPORTS
Understand Employer Engagement and Needs
Parker Dewey+ allows you to view which employers have demonstrated interest in recruiting your students. The following reports are most helpful in understanding the actions that employers have already taken to engage your students and recent graduates.
- 'Company Sign Ups' (found under the 'Employer Data' tab): See which employers have created a Parker Dewey account via your school’s landing page. They may or may not have already taken the next step of posting a Micro-Internship, but even if they haven't yet, creating an account from your page demonstrates an interest in engaging and recruiting your students.
- 'Projects Exclusive to Your School' (found under the 'Employer Data' tab): View currently available Micro-Internships that are exclusively available to students and recent graduates from your institution. This report also shows:
- Start/due dates: These are the date the company is hoping to make a Micro-Intern selection and the date the company is hoping for the project to be completed. Please be aware that not all companies wait until the listed start date to make a selection. Some may select their Micro-Intern as soon as they receive a qualified candidate, even if the project has only been posted for a few hours at that point.
- # of applicants: If this number is low, we recommend quickly connecting with your student-facing colleague(s) to make more students aware of the opportunity.
- Payment amount: This is the total amount the company pays per Micro-Intern. The selected Micro-Intern will be paid 90% of this total by Parker Dewey.
- 'Students Selected' (found under the 'Student Data' tab): See a list of the companies who have worked with your students. If there are employers there who you do not have contact information for yet, and you want to establish a relationship and make sure they're aware of additional opportunities to recruit your students, reach out to Parker Dewey. We’re happy to make an introduction.
Not seeing a lot of information in the above reports yet? Promotion of Parker Dewey to your existing employers and alumni is key! Make sure you're completing the recommended steps in our Employer-Facing Parker Dewey+ Partnership Checklist to spread the word and create more Micro-Internship opportunities for your students.
At the links below, access step-by-step instructions for navigating Parker Dewey+ and downloading reports referenced above.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: NAVIGATING PARKER DEWEY+
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: DOWNLOADING REPORTS
Promote Parker Dewey using school-specific stories
While there is already plenty of ready-to-use employer-facing content in our Marketing Toolkit, as a Parker Dewey+ partner, you have a unique opportunity to highlight school-specific successes when promoting Parker Dewey to your employers. We recommend downloading the 'Selected for Projects' and 'Feedback Report' reports under the 'Student Data' tab to identify companies who may be a good fit for success stories. If you don't already have a point of contact for the employers in the data, reach out to Parker Dewey. We’re happy to make an introduction.
Use our Parker Dewey interview template to get the information needed to write a story about Micro-Internships from the employer's perspective. Check out our employer success stories if you need inspiration. Make sure to send the resulting story to schools@parkerdewey.com - we love to see and share your success!
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: NAVIGATING PARKER DEWEY+ REPORTS DASHBOARD
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: DOWNLOADING REPORTS
NAVIGATING PARKER DEWEY+
Accessing Your Parker Dewey+ Account
- Go to Sign In to Parker Dewey: https://app.parkerdewey.com/auth/sign-in
- Enter your SCHOOL email address*.
- If that email address was previously attached to a Parker Dewey account, enter the same password that you used for that account.
- If that email address was not previously attached to a Parker Dewey account, click on Reset It to set a password.
- Click Sign In.
*NOTE: Your Parker Dewey+ account will replace any pre-existing Parker Dewey account tied to your school email address. If you would like to create a student or employer account so that you can demonstrate Parker Dewey to any student or employer, you can do so using whatever email address you wish.
Parker Dewey+ Sections
There are three main sections of Parker Dewey+ (Main Menu, Resources, & Reports Dashboard)
- Main Menu
- Dashboard: View Reports Dashboard
- Students: Access Individual Student Profiles/Applications
- Account: Update information about your Parker Dewey account (e.g. password)
- Resources
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- Partner Engagement Checklist: Download a checklist of ideas on how to promote Parker Dewey to students and employers. There are separate checklists for each audience.
- Marketing Toolkit: Access Parker Dewey’s extensive library of marketing collateral on-demand to promote Micro-Internships to students, employers, alumni, and faculty.
- Upcoming Events: View a list of Parker Dewey events that you can promote to students and/or employers. This includes monthly FAQ webinars for students/employers and student office hours.
- Meet with Parker Dewey: Find the first available date/time to meet with a member of the Parker Dewey Partnerships team.
- Email: Click on Link to Template to open a Google Doc template with a draft email you can use to quickly promote specific Micro-Internships to students
- Social: View a suggested caption and a link to a Canva template to customize a social post to promote a specific Micro-Internship
- Newsletter: View a suggested newsletter blurb and image about Micro-Internships that you can include in your next student newsletter.
- Reports Dashboard
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- Dashboard: Summary information about your all-time student/alumni engagement with Parker Dewey. Use the Date Filter to modify the dashboard to whatever timeframe you wish.
- Student Data: Download the following reports
- All Students/Alumni: List of all students/alumni who have created a Parker Dewey account and listed your school in their profile. Includes graduation date, major(s), degree, # of applications, # of projects selected, # of logins, last login date, sign up date, and projects to which the student applied.
- Selected for Projects: Lists all students who have been selected for a Micro-Internship, the company name, project name, start date, end date, compensation, and reason the project was canceled (if applicable).
- Feedback Report: Lists the employer feedback received by each unique student at your institution who have completed Micro-Internships. A bar graph summary of this feedback is available on the Dashboard. Quantitative Feedback is evaluated on a 4-point scale:
- Expected more from an intern or new hire
- As expected for an intern or new hire
- Impressive for a Career Launcher
- Executed like an industry veteran
- Employer Data: Download the following reports
- Projects Featured for Your School: List of all open projects under the “Featured Projects” section for students.
- This includes projects that are open to your school based on an affiliation. For example, adding the “Kansas Micro-Internship Program” affiliation will automatically open the project to all public colleges/universities in Kansas.
- This also includes projects that may be open to multiple students. If the “Number Hired” column is 1 or more, then the project is still open because the company is looking to work with multiple students on that project.
- Featured Projects are not open to all students across the Parker Dewey platform, so students are encouraged to apply to all Featured Projects that interest them in order to have a less competitive pool of applicants.
- Projects Exclusive to Your School: List of all projects where the organization specifically mentioned that they wanted the project to be visible to students at your school. These Micro-Internships are all listed under the “Featured Projects” section for students when they first log into Parker Dewey. Projects Exclusive to Your School are significantly less competitive than “Open Micro-Internships” so your students are encouraged to apply to any that interest them.
- Company Sign Ups: List of all organizations who signed up for Parker Dewey via the sign up link on your school’s landing page. Companies who signed up via another landing page or Parker Dewey’s main website are not included on this list. These companies may or may not have posted a Micro-Internship.
- Projects Featured for Your School: List of all open projects under the “Featured Projects” section for students.
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- Impact Report: This includes student/alumni, company and project data over the last 12 months.
- The date filters do not apply to this report. If you are pulling the report on August 5, 2024, it will include all data from August 6, 2023 through August 5, 2024.
- To print this report, click on the print button within your web browser.
- Impact Report: This includes student/alumni, company and project data over the last 12 months.
Downloading Reports
- Hover over the upper right corner of the report you wish to download.
- Click on the … icon (see red arrow in the screenshot above).
- Select download results.
- Under Download Full Results, select the format you wish to download (.csv, .xlsx, or .json).
Viewing Student Profiles and Applications
- Click on Students under the Main Menu. Note that this will include all students and alumni with your school listed in the Education section of their Parker Dewey profile.
- Enter at least one letter of the student’s name for the student you wish to view.
- Click Search. The results will filter. Click on Clear to select from all students.
- To view a specific student’s account, click on their name:
- To view that student's profile:
- Scroll down.
- The application(s) the students have submitted to Micro-Internships are viewed at the bottom of their profile under “Applications.”
- If the student has not submitted any applications, the “Applications” section will state “No data to display.”
- To view that student’s application to a Micro-Internship:
- Scroll to the bottom of their profile to the “Applications” section.
- Click on the project under Project Name. If there are no projects listed, then the student has not submitted an application to a Micro-Internship.
- The student’s application responses are listed under Responses.
- Click on Back to Student Profile to return to the student’s profile and view additional project applications.
- Click on Back to Student List to view another student.
- To email a student, click on the student’s email address. This will open an email in your email browser.
- To view that student's profile:
Student Ambassador Micro-Internship
Paying Parker Dewey+ subscribers are encouraged to select one of your students to serve as a Student Ambassador to complete a Micro-Internship promoting Parker Dewey at your school. To get started:
- Click on this link to view the benefits of hiring a student ambassador for your school and for the Micro-Intern.
- If you don't already have one, you'll need to create a Parker Dewey employer account at this link.
- NOTE: An email address with access to your Parker Dewey+ dashboard cannot also be used to set up an employer account - it will need to be established with a different email address by you or a colleague. If not already used for a Parker Dewey+ account, we recommend that the email address you use for the employer account belongs to the person on your team who will be supervising the Student Ambassador Micro-Intern.
- Once you are logged in as an employer, select the 'Post This Micro-Internship' button.
- Most of the information about the Student Ambassador Micro-Internship will pre-populate from the program template, but you can update this to add the details about your Student Ambassador’s responsibilities. Be sure to update/fill in:
- Start/End Dates
- Location
- School or Affiliation: If you are using program funds to cover the cost of your Micro-Internship, make sure you add the name of your program in the 'Affiliations' section. If you are a PD+ subscriber, but not a Program-level partner, simply add your institution in the 'Schools' section to make sure this Micro-Internship is only be visible to students at your school.
- When the project is posted, you will be able to see it within Parker Dewey+ in the Projects Featured for Your School report. The Project URL is a link that you can share with interested students that will directly lead them to the project when they are logged into Parker Dewey.