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It has never been harder for college graduates to find jobs

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of 2025 graduates found entry-level jobs in their field

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of externs find a job outcome

Addis Romero

I landed multiple roles because of Extern, and I am living out all of my dreams. Thank you for believing in me — I’m so grateful to have been part of this program!

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Media Intern at WPP Media

Erik Schalk

Extern played a crucial role in bridging the gap between my education & the real world. Being able to present recommendations to the Head of Customer Insights at Beats was what paved the way for my current role at Rolls-Royce.

Currently:

Project Manager at Rolls Royce

Alice Mollet

I was able to have tangible experiences to touch upon in my interviews. I explained what I was working on and how it would impact my role in their firm — and they loved it.

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Summer Analyst at HSBC

Alyssa Jhingree

Positive aspects included hands-on experience in structuring investment memos and utilizing AI to streamline content creation. This is the type of experience that matters when interviewing.

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Intern at McLaren Racing

Shapnil Roy

College teaches you how to think. Extern teaches you how to apply it. My externship experiences provided me with a broad perspective on how various parts of a company operate, from strategy to supply chain management.

Currently:

Intern at Colgate

Anisya Nair

Even two years after my externship, I was still bringing it up in job interviews because it was so relevant to my career growth. It helped me get internships.

Currently:

Structured Finance Intern at EY

Bintou Majula Drammeh

Less than two months after my externship, I landed a junior year internship with Goldman Sachs. I talked a lot about the project we worked on during the externship, how we had to check in on different points of the work, and how that really built my confidence.

Currently:

Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Rajat Sood

Coming into college it’s hard to get experience. Extern really helped me showcase my skills in interviews and gave me something solid on my resume.

Currently:

Summer Analyst at Pfizer

Garrett Boyce

If I hadn’t done an externship, I’d be spending hours watching YouTube videos to understand which careers I might enjoy! Externships should be a requirement for every college student.

Currently:

Deployment Strategist at Palantir

Dakarai Young

Extern was the very first thing on my resume. I pulled up the slide deck I built during my externship in an interview, and it snowballed into roles at Dell, Google, and now Microsoft.

Currently:

Analyst at Microsoft

Sabine Kabuika

I got to work with real data and present insights that mattered. Those externships gave me the confidence and portfolio to land my next opportunity.

Currently:

Global Technology Intern at McDonald's

Sarah Hasan

My externships gave me hands-on marketing experience I never got in college — and helped me define my career goals. I think everybody should know about externships!

Currently:

Social Media Marketing Intern at Nintendo

Addis Romero

I landed multiple roles because of Extern, and I am living out all of my dreams. Thank you for believing in me — I’m so grateful to have been part of this program!

Currently:

Media Intern at WPP Media

Erik Schalk

Currently:

Project Manager at Rolls Royce

Alice Mollet

I was able to have tangible experiences to touch upon in my interviews. I explained what I was working on and how it would impact my role in their firm — and they loved it.

Currently:

Summer Analyst at HSBC

Alyssa Jhingree

Positive aspects included hands-on experience in structuring investment memos and utilizing AI to streamline content creation. This is the type of experience that matters when interviewing.

Currently:

Intern at McLaren Racing

Shapnil Roy

Currently:

Intern at Colgate

Anisya Nair

Even two years after my externship, I was still bringing it up in job interviews because it was so relevant to my career growth. It helped me get internships.

Currently:

Structured Finance Intern at EY

Bintou Majula Drammeh

Currently:

Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Rajat Sood

Coming into college it’s hard to get experience. Extern really helped me showcase my skills in interviews and gave me something solid on my resume.

Currently:

Summer Analyst at Pfizer

Garrett Boyce

If I hadn’t done an externship, I’d be spending hours watching YouTube videos to understand which careers I might enjoy! Externships should be a requirement for every college student.

Currently:

Deployment Strategist at Palantir

Dakarai Young

Extern was the very first thing on my resume. I pulled up the slide deck I built during my externship in an interview, and it snowballed into roles at Dell, Google, and now Microsoft.

Currently:

Analyst at Microsoft

Sabine Kabuika

I got to work with real data and present insights that mattered. Those externships gave me the confidence and portfolio to land my next opportunity.

Currently:

Global Technology Intern at McDonald's

Sarah Hasan

My externships gave me hands-on marketing experience I never got in college — and helped me define my career goals. I think everybody should know about externships!

Currently:

Social Media Marketing Intern at Nintendo

Extern gives anyone the chance to succeed

At Extern, we believe anyone can succeed — They just need a real chance to prove it.

That’s why, no matter your GPA, background, or past experience, Extern helps you gain the confidence, experience, and skills employers need.

With Extern your loved ones will have the chance to beat the odds.

Hands-on projects solving real-world problems from top companies

Learn the most important skills and tools employers look for

Connect and network with industry professionals and peers

Enhanced resumé experience and LinkedIn-building experience

Gain recognition with Professional Awards upon program completion

Gift Career-ready Experience

I landed multiple roles because of Extern, and I am living out all of my dreams. Thank you for believing in me — I’m so grateful to have been part of this program!

Addis Romero

OUTCOME

Media Intern at WPP Media

Erik Schalk

OUTCOME

Project Manager at Rolls Royce

I was able to have tangible experiences to touch upon in my interviews. I explained what I was working on and how it would impact my role in their firm — and they loved it.

Alice Mollet

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at HSBC

Positive aspects included hands-on experience in structuring investment memos and utilizing AI to streamline content creation. This is the type of experience that matters when interviewing.

Alyssa Jhingree

OUTCOME

Intern at McLaren Racing

I landed multiple roles because of Extern, and I am living out all of my dreams. Thank you for believing in me — I’m so grateful to have been part of this program!

Addis Romero

OUTCOME

Media Intern at WPP Media

Erik Schalk

OUTCOME

Project Manager at Rolls Royce

I was able to have tangible experiences to touch upon in my interviews. I explained what I was working on and how it would impact my role in their firm — and they loved it.

Alice Mollet

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at HSBC

Positive aspects included hands-on experience in structuring investment memos and utilizing AI to streamline content creation. This is the type of experience that matters when interviewing.

Alyssa Jhingree

OUTCOME

Intern at McLaren Racing

Shapnil Roy

OUTCOME

Intern at Colgate

Even two years after my externship, I was still bringing it up in job interviews because it was so relevant to my career growth. It helped me get internships.

Anisya Nair

OUTCOME

Structured Finance Intern at EY

Bintou Majula Drammeh

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Coming into college it’s hard to get experience. Extern really helped me showcase my skills in interviews and gave me something solid on my resume.

Rajat Sood

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at Pfizer

Shapnil Roy

OUTCOME

Intern at Colgate

Even two years after my externship, I was still bringing it up in job interviews because it was so relevant to my career growth. It helped me get internships.

Anisya Nair

OUTCOME

Structured Finance Intern at EY

Bintou Majula Drammeh

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Coming into college it’s hard to get experience. Extern really helped me showcase my skills in interviews and gave me something solid on my resume.

Rajat Sood

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at Pfizer

My externships gave me hands-on marketing experience I never got in college — and helped me define my career goals. I think everybody should know about externships!

Sarah Hasan

OUTCOME

Social Media Marketing Intern at Nintendo

I got to work with real data and present insights that mattered. Those externships gave me the confidence and portfolio to land my next opportunity.

Sabine Kabuika

OUTCOME

Global Technology Intern at McDonald's

Extern was the very first thing on my resume. I pulled up the slide deck I built during my externship in an interview, and it snowballed into roles at Dell, Google, and now Microsoft.

Dakarai Young

OUTCOME

Analyst at Microsoft

If I hadn’t done an externship, I’d be spending hours watching YouTube videos to understand which careers I might enjoy! Externships should be a requirement for every college student.

Garrett Boyce

OUTCOME

Deployment Strategist at Palantir

My externships gave me hands-on marketing experience I never got in college — and helped me define my career goals. I think everybody should know about externships!

Sarah Hasan

OUTCOME

Social Media Marketing Intern at Nintendo

I got to work with real data and present insights that mattered. Those externships gave me the confidence and portfolio to land my next opportunity.

Sabine Kabuika

OUTCOME

Global Technology Intern at McDonald's

Extern was the very first thing on my resume. I pulled up the slide deck I built during my externship in an interview, and it snowballed into roles at Dell, Google, and now Microsoft.

Dakarai Young

OUTCOME

Analyst at Microsoft

If I hadn’t done an externship, I’d be spending hours watching YouTube videos to understand which careers I might enjoy! Externships should be a requirement for every college student.

Garrett Boyce

OUTCOME

Deployment Strategist at Palantir

I was able to have tangible experiences to touch upon in my interviews. I explained what I was working on and how it would impact my role in their firm — and they loved it.

Alice Mollet

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at HSBC

I landed multiple roles because of Extern, and I am living out all of my dreams. Thank you for believing in me — I’m so grateful to have been part of this program!

Addis Romero

OUTCOME

Media Intern at WPP Media

Bintou Majula Drammeh

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Shapnil Roy

OUTCOME

Intern at Colgate

I got to work with real data and present insights that mattered. Those externships gave me the confidence and portfolio to land my next opportunity.

Sabine Kabuika

OUTCOME

Global Technology Intern at McDonald's

Extern was the very first thing on my resume. I pulled up the slide deck I built during my externship in an interview, and it snowballed into roles at Dell, Google, and now Microsoft.

Dakarai Young

OUTCOME

Analyst at Microsoft

Even two years after my externship, I was still bringing it up in job interviews because it was so relevant to my career growth. It helped me get internships.

Anisya Nair

OUTCOME

Structured Finance Intern at EY

Erik Schalk

OUTCOME

Project Manager at Rolls Royce

If I hadn’t done an externship, I’d be spending hours watching YouTube videos to understand which careers I might enjoy! Externships should be a requirement for every college student.

Garrett Boyce

OUTCOME

Deployment Strategist at Palantir

Coming into college it’s hard to get experience. Extern really helped me showcase my skills in interviews and gave me something solid on my resume.

Rajat Sood

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at Pfizer

Positive aspects included hands-on experience in structuring investment memos and utilizing AI to streamline content creation. This is the type of experience that matters when interviewing.

Alyssa Jhingree

OUTCOME

Intern at McLaren Racing

My externships gave me hands-on marketing experience I never got in college — and helped me define my career goals. I think everybody should know about externships!

Sarah Hasan

OUTCOME

Social Media Marketing Intern at Nintendo

Positive aspects included hands-on experience in structuring investment memos and utilizing AI to streamline content creation. This is the type of experience that matters when interviewing.

Alyssa Jhingree

OUTCOME

Intern at McLaren Racing

Erik Schalk

OUTCOME

Project Manager at Rolls Royce

I got to work with real data and present insights that mattered. Those externships gave me the confidence and portfolio to land my next opportunity.

Sabine Kabuika

OUTCOME

Global Technology Intern at McDonald's

Shapnil Roy

OUTCOME

Intern at Colgate

Extern was the very first thing on my resume. I pulled up the slide deck I built during my externship in an interview, and it snowballed into roles at Dell, Google, and now Microsoft.

Dakarai Young

OUTCOME

Analyst at Microsoft

If I hadn’t done an externship, I’d be spending hours watching YouTube videos to understand which careers I might enjoy! Externships should be a requirement for every college student.

Garrett Boyce

OUTCOME

Deployment Strategist at Palantir

I was able to have tangible experiences to touch upon in my interviews. I explained what I was working on and how it would impact my role in their firm — and they loved it.

Alice Mollet

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at HSBC

Bintou Majula Drammeh

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Even two years after my externship, I was still bringing it up in job interviews because it was so relevant to my career growth. It helped me get internships.

Anisya Nair

OUTCOME

Structured Finance Intern at EY

My externships gave me hands-on marketing experience I never got in college — and helped me define my career goals. I think everybody should know about externships!

Sarah Hasan

OUTCOME

Social Media Marketing Intern at Nintendo

I landed multiple roles because of Extern, and I am living out all of my dreams. Thank you for believing in me — I’m so grateful to have been part of this program!

Addis Romero

OUTCOME

Media Intern at WPP Media

Coming into college it’s hard to get experience. Extern really helped me showcase my skills in interviews and gave me something solid on my resume.

Rajat Sood

OUTCOME

Summer Analyst at Pfizer

Extern Gives Anyone The Chance to Succeed

At Extern, we believe anyone can succeed — They just need a real chance to prove it.

That’s why, no matter your GPA, background, or past experience, Extern helps you gain the confidence, experience, and skills employers need. 

With Extern your loved ones will have the chance to beat the odds.

Gift Career-Ready Experience

Hands-on projects solving real-world problems from top companies

Learn the most important skills and tools employers look for

Connect and network with industry professionals and peers

Enhanced resume experience and LinkedIn-building experience

Gain recognition and confidence with Professional Awards upon program completion

Featured Externship: Outamation

Advanced - AI-Powered Document Insights and Data Extraction Externship

Starts:

September 22, 2025

Ends:

December 5, 2025

10 weeks, Part-time · Remote

B2B Software

Real Estate

Technology

OCR Engines

Milestone 1

Intro to Blob Files & AI

Week 1

Live Activities: Meet your mentor, peers, and get introduced to mortgage “blob” files.
Project Objective: Understand real-world challenges of mortgage document processing and how AI can solve them.
Tasks: Explore document types, inspect a blob, and outline key fields.

Output

A structured overview of mortgage document challenges and opportunities for AI.

Milestone 2

Python & Image Preprocessing

Week 2

Live Activities: Python + image preprocessing workshop.
Project Objective: Build foundational coding and image manipulation skills to prepare for OCR.
Tasks:
- Practice Python basics, grayscale conversion, denoising, and thresholding with OpenCV/PIL.

Output

Preprocessed mortgage images ready for OCR.

Milestone 3

Text Extraction & OCR Benchmarking

Weeks 3 & 4

Live Activities: Hands-on PDF parsing and OCR comparison.
Project Objective: Extract text and benchmark OCR tools for accuracy and performance.
Tasks:
- Use PyMuPDF/pdfplumber for parsing, apply regex for field extraction, and compare Tesseract, PaddleOCR, and EasyOCR.

Output

Extracted borrower/loan fields and a report recommending the best OCR engine.

Milestone 4

Building Retrieval-Augmented Systems

Weeks 5 & 6

Live Activities: Workshop on RAG fundamentals and mentor Q&A.
Project Objective: Connect extracted data to LLMs for intelligent search and improve retrieval precision.
Tasks:
- Build a simple RAG pipeline, test Gemini/Mistral, refine chunking, and apply metadata filters.

Output

A tuned RAG system capable of answering queries on mortgage data.

Milestone 5

Integration, Search & Final Delivery

Weeks 7 & 8

Live Activities: Final project showcase with mentor feedback.
Project Objective: Integrate blob splitting, classification, search, and UI into one end-to-end pipeline.
Tasks:
- Build a split_and_route() function, add metadata search filters, create a simple Streamlit/Gradio UI, and test the full system.

Output

A complete document intelligence pipeline, final report, demo video, and optional user interface.

Milestone 6

Final Deliverables

At the end of this externship, you will deliver:

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Full Python pipeline to process 200+ page mortgage blobs
Structured JSON field-level output
Tuned RAG pipeline using Gemini or open-source LLMs
Optional UI for search and interaction
Final demo, documentation, and report