Finding & Applying to Federal Internships and Jobs

Over the last week, thanks to the Partnership for Public Service and The Career Center, 2 webinars were presented to SHU students. 

Contents of the webinars covering searching and applying for positions within the federal government will be accessible to Seton Hall students only through Career Center Resources in Piratenet. 

Why Public Service? The Opportunity to Make A Difference!

Overview of Careers in the New Public Sector

What makes a professional career in public service so unique is the emphasis on tackling "wicked problems" -- the challenging issues that define the public agenda and call for talented individuals to devote their efforts to finding solutions. Here are just a few of the "wicked problems" on the agenda today:

• Managing global climate change and controlling its underlying causes such as carbon emissions
• Supplying food, energy and clean water to the growing populations in developing countries
• Securing the United States and other countries against the possibility of chemical, biological and nuclear terrorism
• Redeveloping older urban areas that have lost their economic base in manufacturing
• Transitioning recently incarcerated persons into productive, nonviolent lives in society
• Ending the epidemic of HIV infection in developed and developing countries.
• Providing quality education and health care to children living in poverty.

These high profile problems are only a piece of the entire picture of public service careers. Many worthwhile careers in the new public sector are devoted to providing absolutely vital daily services to the public in cities, counties, states and nations around the world. Professionals in these careers often must tackle very challenging problems such as expanding services to meet the needs of changing populations without necessarily raising taxes, implementing information technologies that better connect citizens to their governments, and improving responses to natural disasters. Employment demand for professionals to provide leadership, financial management, policy analysis and other such skills has never been stronger.

Go to PublicServiceCareers.org for more information.