MICRO-INTERNSHIPS
Notre Dame College MBA Career Advancement
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How Notre Dame’s Partnership with Parker Dewey Micro-Internships Give You the Edge
Breakthrough to Graduate-level Professional Positions
Notre Dame College MBA students understand how important it is to get their foot in the door and showcase their advanced skills to an employer they are interested in working with.
But the business world is changing even more rapidly now than ever before. With companies facing hiring, budget and supply chain constraints in the wake of the pandemic, traditional internships and related work experiences, even for advanced students, may no longer be offered by employers.
Additionally, work experiences for students often require them to quit their current job or work in another town. Notre Dame MBA students often already have full-time jobs and are unable to travel or relocate due to other responsibilities.
Micro-Internships
In this ultra-competitive, ever-changing, post pandemic job market, micro-internships are the newest foot-in-the-door strategy, and Notre Dame offers its MBA students the edge.
Micro-Internships are short-term, professional assignments, often remote, that are similar to those given to new hires or interns or can be an exploratory innovation or initiative for the business. Micro-Internships are used by companies ranging from those in the Fortune 100 to emerging start-ups and cross all business departments.
These projects enable Notre Dame MBA students to demonstrate their skills, explore career paths and build their networks as they seek the right full-time role, without leaving home. Not only can MBA students at the College explore different professional paths and work on real-life assignments, they also can demonstrate their abilities to potential employers while building their portfolios and networks. Beyond that, students’ academic experiences will improve as they apply what is taught in the classroom to the real world (and vice versa).
And you can earn academic credit and get paid!
Micro-Internship Examples
Data Clean-Up
Competitor Prospecting
Social Media Content Creation
Candidate Sourcing
User Experience Testing
Lead Generation
Market Research
White Paper Development
Website Development/Updates
Data Visualization
Social Media Analysis
CRM Lead Cleansing
Public Document Review
Connecting Students and Employers
Notre Dame partners with Parker Dewey not only to help MBA students find micro-internships but also to help employers find the interns and new hires they need. Companies create accounts and post their open positions. Students get the inside track, offer immediate help and save the business time and money associated with hiring and onboarding.
Get Found
by reputable companies
Build Your Network
complete several
micro-internships
Gain experience
in a variety of industries
At NDC, Micro-Internships are facilitated via the Parker Dewey platform.
Parker Dewey for Companies
Post open positions through Parker Dewey’s Platform.
Parker Dewey for Students
Find and apply for open micro-internships available now.
MBA Career Connection, Placement & Advancement
The Notre Dame MBA 640 strategy capstone course requires you to interface, research and examine a real-world business. You capitalize on the people you already know, and you have plenty of connections in business if you consider friends and colleagues of your family, your classmates, your instructors and more!
These employers will request you to work on a company project from 10 to 40 hours total. This micro-internship is compensated, and you connect with people in the firm. You also can use the experience, with some additional academic parameters, for the MBA 640 strategy capstone.
Our MBA 640 strategy capstone course permits a one academic credit hour micro- internship for a project of 45 employee hours.
Launch Your Career
Learn More about Parker Dewey and Micro-Internships using link below.
Ready to get started? Email jbanjac@ndc.edu to set up time to explore how best to develop your connection mindset and plan for your post-pandemic MBA career.