Because of the nature of the position, STEPs will be required to end their employment with DAU after completing their educational program. They may choose to apply to an open announcement, however they are not automatically converted to a career appointment.

SCEPs may be converted non-competitively to a competitive service career appointment to the target position at any time within 120 days following completion of their educational and work experience requirements and the following conditions are met:

Student must be a U.S. citizen at the time of the noncompetitive conversion to a competitive service career appointment. 

Students must meet the qualification standard for the target position, including any minimum educational, licensing, or certification requirements; however, students who are converted at the same grade as their final SCEP trainee grade need not meet any length of experience requirements for that grade level; 
The position must be in the field, or in a closely related field, for which the students were trained; and  

Students must meet all the program requirements in 5 CFR 213.3202 (b)(11).