Recruiting and Hiring Students and Recent Graduates
Headline: Establishes Pathways Programs to Recruit Students and Recent Graduates
What it does: Agencies must use the new Pathways Programs to hire, train, and consider interns and recent graduates for civil service careers under Schedule D.
- Creates paid federal internships for students across educational levels.
- Allows noncompetitive hiring conversions under a new Schedule D excepted service.
- Agencies must appoint a Pathways Programs Officer within 45 days.
Summary
This order creates the Pathways Programs—an Internship Program, a Recent Graduates Program, and changes to the Presidential Management Fellows program—to improve federal recruiting of students and recent graduates. It directs the Office of Personnel Management to write rules and set standards for hiring, training, mentoring, and conversion to career jobs.
The programs provide paid internships for students, time-limited appointments for recent graduates, and hiring under a new Schedule D excepted service; agencies must follow equal-opportunity and veterans' preference rules and name a Pathways Programs Officer within 45 days.
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