Diversity
Internship Program
The MMS
Pacific Region continually strives to increase diversity in our
workforce by providing leadership and career opportunities to
qualified ethnically diverse and disabled students through
the federal Student Educational Employment Program. The Student
Educational Employment Program benefits both agencies and students.
Agencies can discover first-hand the abilities of a potential
employee. In the case of SCEP, agencies can bring well educated
graduates into their workforce while at the same time give their
managers the ability to evaluate the student's performance in real
work situations. Students, on the other hand, can avail themselves of
such flexibilities as year round employment and flexible work
schedules and assignments.
The Student Temporary Employment Program
(STEP) provides maximum flexibility to both students and managers
because the nature of the work docs not have to be related to the
student's academic or career goals.
The Student Career
Experience Program (SCEP) provides work experience that is directly
related to the student's academic program and career goals. Students
in the SCEP gain exposure to public service while enhancing their
educational goals and shaping their career choices. SCEP appointments
may be noncompetitively converted to term, career or
career-conditional appointments following completion of their academic
and work experience requirements when vacancies are available.
The four main objectives
of these student employment programs are:
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to merge academic study
with practical application for students majoring in relevant fields
and related disciplines;
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to create a consort of
talented students to explore and understand professional practices
through exposure to research and development, technology,
administration and the government environment;
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to provide professional
experience for ethnically diverse students and students with
disabilities that will enable them to make educated and informed
career choices; and
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to create a pool of future
employees who have had positive, meaningful work experience with the
federal government, and who might consider federal service as a
serious career choice.
For more information on
the Region's student programs, contact
Pacific OCS Region
Student Program Coordinator.
It is policy in the
Department of the Interior that no person in the U.S. shall be
discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin,
disability or age in any of its federally assisted programs or
activities. Additionally, discrimination on the basis of gender or
sexual orientation is strictly prohibited in DOI's federally assisted
programs; statutory authority language contains specific prohibitions
against sex discrimination.
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