Tamara Mathias

Interview
New York Startup Younity Decided to Bring a Group of Students on Board for a Remote Work Project. Here’s Why.

Paragon One managed an eight-week remote externship for real estate technology company Younity, giving students from diverse backgrounds the chance to work remotely at an up-and-coming startup.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
Why High School is the Perfect Time to Introduce Students to Experiential Learning

High schoolers with exposure to experiential learning are at an advantage when applying to college and securing internships during their time at university.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Interview
Why Crafted Capital Opted to Give Students Their First Taste of Investment Banking Through a Remote Externship

How a boutique investment banking firm partnered with Paragon One to leverage remote student talent at scale and open up their recruiting funnel for the future.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
What is a Remote Externship?

For companies, Remote Externships are an efficient way to offer a real world work experience opportunity to a large group of diverse students. Typically, companies would be able to reach many more students than they would through a traditional internship.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
I'm a Pre-med Student That Did a Remote Externship With a VC Firm. Here's Why.

This summer, Thomas Heslop signed on for a remote externship with Boston-based venture capital firm RallyCry Ventures, managed by Paragon One. As a “pre-med” student, getting work experience in finance seemed like a disruptive career choice to make, but the Howard University senior sees immense value in taking an unconventional learning route. Since writing this article, Heslop has enrolled in a second Paragon One-managed remote externship, this time with Facebook.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Interview
Starting a Remote Career? Here’s How to Make an Impression.

After over a decade in HR and talent development for Fortune 500 companies like Avon and PepsiCo, Sarah Aviram decided to shake things up and travel the world, without sacrificing her career. She has some great advice for young people beginning their careers remotely.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Feature
How Case Western Reserve University’s Experiential Education Legacy Continues to Drive Its Career Services

Ohio-based Case Western Reserve University runs programs that offer students a whole gamut of experiential education opportunities, from lab research, to co-ops and micro internships. Now, they've added Paragon One’s remote externships to the mix.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
Paragon One Teams Up with HP to Support Diverse Student Careers Through Flexible “Remote Externships”

We, at Paragon One, turn interesting business projects into flexible Remote Externships that enable students to build their resumes by partnering with top tech companies. To expand their effort, HP Tech Ventures launched a remote externship with Paragon One. HP Tech Ventures has hosted almost 200 students since 2020 who researched and analyzed promising startups in transformative technologies.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Interview
Underrepresented New York Students Have Remote Externships For The Summer of 2020: Thank you, OppNet!

Paragon One is proud to partner with The Opportunity Network to match first generation college students and young people of color with online externships through the COVID19 crisis.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
I'm Working To Become My Own Boss. Step 1 Was Starting a Business in High School. Next - a Remote Externship!

It’s 2021. In a world where technology allows students to build job-ready skills and begin their careers long before graduating, Howard University student athlete Richie Jones embarked on a remote externship with Facebook via Paragon One. All while attending online school and running his digital marketing business full time.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
How Experiential Learning and Remote Work Can Accelerate Diverse and Inclusive Recruiting

By running Externship programs that available to applicants from every background, companies have a chance to work with candidates before offering them jobs. Over 6-8 weeks, can assess how well a candidate will fit in with their team and culture, how motivated they are and how impactful their work is.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
How A Remote Externship Elevated My Year Of Online School

Lindsey Yang, a student at Burlingame High School in California, shares how the remote externship she did with Facebook through Paragon One helped her use her time productively, even as the pandemic curtailed other passions.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
Fall 2020: Beta Testing The Future of Education

While universities might not be able to give students the full college experience this fall, those that are quick to recognize students’ newfound priorities are best-placed to tackle the disruption they are seeing.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Feature
Facebook Partnered With a Startup to Give Scores of Diverse Students Remote Externships This Summer. We Were That Startup.

Working at Facebook is every student’s dream. By partnering with Paragon One during a very difficult summer for students, the social media giant made that dream a reality for dozens of young people, irrespective of where they lived or studied.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
Does the US Still Appeal to International Students?

With health concerns, travel restrictions and recent anti-immigration proposals, it is imperative for higher education in the United States to refine its offering to continue to attract the international students that contribute over $45 billion to the US economy a year.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Feature
COVID19 Might Have Forced Classrooms To Close, But These High Schoolers Just Began Their Careers Online

Asia’s Dulwich College International turned the disruption caused by mass lockdowns into a chance for students to get their first taste of corporate life via remote externships, by partnering with Paragon One

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
Insight
Class of COVID High Schoolers and The “Forced” Gap Year

With the advent of remote internships, Gen Z high schoolers have the ability to differentiate themselves by gaining corporate work experience to boost their college applications, even as COVID19 delays their higher education plans.

Tamara Mathias
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November 16, 2022
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