WrittenPublished by: The Chronicle of Higer Education
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Extracted Content: Internships can be a great way for students to experience new fields of interest and the challenges of professional duties. But what about the students whose life circumstances don’t allow them the luxury of relocating for a cool opportunity or taking on the equivalent of a second job, not to mention the students who lack the connections to land one?
Those were the students Jeff Moss had in mind in 2016, when he founded Parker Dewey. It’s an online marketplace where employers post descriptions of short-term projects they’d like a student or recent graduate to tackle — for pay. Think: TaskRabbit goes to college.