Spread the word and join us for the sixth annual Public Service Town Hall and Career Fair!

This online forum is designed to energize Call to Serve members to educate students about exciting professional opportunities with the federal government.

Public Service Town Hall and Career Fair

Download flyer to share with your students and young professionals!

When: July 16, 2008. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Where: National Building Museum in Washington, DC 

Who: In past years, this event has drawn representatives from more than 30 federal agencies and has been attended by over 1,400 interns and young professionals.  This year MTV’s Tim Kash will be hosting our town hall discussion, which will be followed by the career fair.  This event is free and open to the public; encourage anyone interested in federal opportunities to attend!

RSVP: Student and young professionals' registration: www.ourpublicservice.org/careerfair.

Ensure that your agency is represented at the career fair by contacting Katelin Kennedy at kkennedy@ourpublicservice.org for registration information.

Also, get federal service savvy with our Prep Workshops before the career fair!

Table of Contents

News

Federal Service Scholarships: Roosevelt Scholars
Ask Not What Graduates Can Do For the Nation

Agencies Boost Use of Hiring Flexibilities  

The Partnership if Hiring 

Is your agency or campus an official Call to Serve member?

Resources

Hot Jobs/Cool Internships

Webinar Workshop Notes: Planning for Next Year
Events

Federal Application Presentations and Agency Panel in D.C.

Career Fairs on the Horizon

News

The Partnership is excited to announce that Representatives David Price (D-NC) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) have introduced H.R. 6160, the Roosevelt Scholars Act of 2008, an important piece of legislation which, if enacted, will better enable the federal government to recruit a new generation of leaders who will fill critical positions in areas such as engineering, the sciences, foreign languages, and public health.  Modeled after the military ROTC program, Roosevelt Scholars would help the federal government build a much needed pipeline of talent. 

The Roosevelt Scholars program would:

• Provide full tuition, support for room and board, and a stipend for graduate study in occupations critical to our government’s success;
• In exchange for this support, Roosevelt Scholars would complete an internship with a federal agency; and
• Complete a minimum of three years of federal service after graduation.

To learn more about the Roosevelt Scholars Act of 2008 and show you support for this important piece of legislation click here.

The Christian Science Monitor
Paul Light

It's high school graduation time and the halls are ringing with John F. Kennedy's exhortation to "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

Public service has been prominent in the presidential campaign narratives, and should be a focus at graduations. But such rhetoric is not quite enough to launch this generation into a lifetime of service.

Just as young Americans have redefined social networking through Facebook, they have changed the basic meaning of public service. It no longer denotes a 30-year career in government, but a kaleidoscope of engagement that covers everything from voting to military service.

Read complete article. 

Agencies Boost Use of Hiring Flexibilities
Government Executive
Tom Shoop

Federal agencies' use of hiring flexibilities has increased substantially in recent years, according to a new Office of Personnel Management report.

The report found that from fiscal 2004 to fiscal 2007, the number of employees hired under eight special authorities went up more than 48 percent, from slightly less than 30,000 to more than 43,000. During that same period, the total number of annual new hires went up by less than 2 percent, from 236,000 to 240,000. "Agencies often claim the traditional ranking and selection procedures of the federal hiring process are the main barriers to attracting qualified candidates and filling positions with the people they need to carry out their missions," OPM reported.

To address such concerns, over the years Congress has authorized the use of several alternatives to the traditional competitive examining approach to federal hiring.

Read the complete article.

The Partnership is Hiring Full-Time Staff and Public Service Fellows
Know someone with a passion for public service? Want to advise your students and alumni about great opportunities at a Great Place to Work? The Partnership for Public Service is hiring!

Find out more about these full-time positions, as well as our Public Service Fellows Program. The application deadline for the Fellowship is fast approaching- July 31, 2008. Please pass along these great opportunities!

Is your agency or campus an official Call to Serve member? Do we have the right contact on file?

It's the time of year when contacts change! Please check the Directory of Agency and School Contacts to make sure we have the right person as the Call to Serve contact. Also, if you are not sure if your agency or school is an official member, check your status here. Email bbohnet@ourpublicservice.org if you need to update records or become an official member.

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Resources

Hot Jobs/Cool Internships of the Week
You can do that in a government job?!

Campuses: Each week, we seek out interesting entry-level jobs and student opportunities in the federal government across all academic majors. Check out what we found this week on Hot Jobs/Cool Internships and share these opportunities with your networks. 

Agencies: Have entry-level or student positions? Submit your Hot Jobs/Cool Internships to get them featured on makingthedifference.org!

Planning for Next Year
The relative quiet (right!) of summer can be a great time to get programs ready that will inspire and educate your students about federal job and internship opportunities during the 08-09 school year. Several Call to Serve universities have had great success using the summer to educate faculty and advisors in how to work with students on federal opportunities, to reach out to parents of new students and to plan events that take advantage of the experiences of students who had summer federal internships. 

Use these tools to start planning for next school year.  

Disability Resources 

Leadership for the Employment of Americans with Disabilities

http://www.eeoc.gov/initiatives/lead/index.html

Federal Disability Workforce Consortium

http://www.fdwc.info/

Workforce Recruitment Program

https://wrp.gov/LoginPre.do?method=login

Job Accommodation Network

http://www.jan.wvu.edu/

Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program

http://www.tricare.mil/cap/index.cfm

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Events

Career Centers: Want to get more federal agencies to attend your next fair? Use the calendar to plan your event around others in your region! As you plan outreach and your career fairs for next year, use the Career Fairs calendar on the bottom left corner of makingthedifference.org.

Agencies: Tight budgets demand smart decisions on where to send your agency's recruiters. Use this calendar to plan your career fair attendance for the biggest return on investment.

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