As soon as the application window closes, our Human Capital staff screens your resume to confirm you're eligible to participate in the program.  Next, managers with intern requirements, review your resume and application.  If they consider you qualified, they may select you outright or decide to call you to conduct a phone interview. If you're being considered by multiple managers you may by contact by more than one manager. Thus, if you are an applicant, please ensure we have a dependable way of contacting you, such as a cell phone number or an email account you check several times a week, since our notification and subsequent interaction with selectees may occur over holidays and school breaks.

If more than one manager indicates an interest in you, we coordinate the selection process so that you're matched up with the best job for your background and Marine Corps Intelligence requirements.

If you are selected, many parts of our organization then become involved to ensure you provide the necessary information to document your eligibility for the grade and series under which you would come in, fulfill other requirements for federal employment, and provide what's necessary to be considered for an (interim) TS/SCI security clearance. What follows are the major steps of our process, including the general timetable for processing required forms and fulfilling other requirements. Please refer to these instructions if you are told you are a selectee, as all these steps will need to be completed to bring you aboard

• Step 1.  Candidate Selection and Notification.  The application window will close 4 November 2011. Managers will review the applications during the month of November. Selectees will be notified by the Student Employment Program Coordinator by phone or e-mail starting December until end of February.  You will be selected for one position only; we unfortunately do not have the ability to offer you your choice of positions. If selected, please respond promptly to confirm your interest in participating this coming summer as an intern. In late February, the Student Employment Coordinator will send notification to those applicants who were not selected for the program.  These notifications are never easy to make, as we see to much outstanding talent among our applicants. Individuals who receive the "not selected" notification will be encouraged to apply for the following summer program if still eligible at that time.

For Selectees ONLY

• Step 2.  Preliminary Security Screening.  Our Security Staff will call you to discuss any issues that might prevent you from getting an intern clearance or that could inordinately delay the clearance process.
• Step 3.  Preliminary Offer.  If you successfully pass the security preliminary screen, our Human Capital staff then makes you a preliminary offer.  If you accept the preliminary offer, you continue in the process.
• Step 4.  Fingerprints and Other Forms.  You will receive a packet of forms to complete. The fingerprint cards and the Questionnaire for National Security Positions (SF-86) must be returned within SEVEN calendar days following receipt of the forms.
• Step 5.  Review of Security Forms.  Our Security Staff takes a week or so to review the security forms for legibility and completeness. If everything looks acceptable, they send your paperwork to the Office of Personnel Management, which will start your investigation.
• Step 6.  External Agency Review and Adjudication.  The Department of the Navy Central Adjudication Facility reviews the investigation results and decides whether or not to grant an interim waiver. While we are waiting we discuss a tentative report date with you and send you additional information about the program.
• Step 7.  Drug Test.  While the investigation is underway, we make arrangements for you to have a drug test in  your area (near you school or near your home over spring school break.)
• Step 8.  Other Required Forms.  Our Human Resources staff collects other forms verifying your citizenship and your final spring semester transcript.
• Step 9.  Final Offer.  When all the pieces have fallen into place we issue a final employment offer and a report date is set and then you'll report on board!