For many high school and college students, summer break is a time
to think about expanding your work experience. If this is something in
which you would be interested, it's not to early to begin searching for
an internship in a local, state or federal government agency. There are
many types of these positions available. They offer those fortunate
enough to capture one of the jobs benefits that carry into professional
life.
Internships are a special type of position, usually created
to allow young workers to learn more about many different types of
government positions by working alongside the regular employees. The
interns often are directed to complete special projects that might fall
outside the usual day-to-day workings. Such projects will typically have
stated goals and a short time frame for completion.
Internships
exist or can be created at every level of government. There are many
types of internships. Work projects can include working for Congress, a
local assembly or city council. Internships in the White House are much
sought after, since there are only 100 positions open at any one time.
These positions deal with military, medicine, education and the
environment. If you are determined, you can petition an agency to create
a project for you.
In addition to real benefits financially,
internships allow the individuals fortunate enough to be chosen a
significant amount of experience in the selected field. This field could
be law, politics, administration, education or health. There are
positions in science research and in engineering. Interns are selected
from a large field of hopefuls, so you should enter your name into the
running if you are at all interested.
If you are not one of the
few inters selected to live and work in Washington DC, you could choose
to work a project at the state or city level. If you elect to work for
state government as an intern, you should plan on living in the state
capital. If you have an interest any of the positions available at the
city level, you can usually find a job slot that you can use to expand
your level of experience.
Perhaps the most exciting aspect for
interns in the nation's capitol is meeting the powerful members of all
three branches of government. There are jobs in many of the departments
and agencies. The projects that are assigned are real jobs. Networking
is important in the real world. Often a qualified internship is a path
into a permanent position in the future.
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