Specially Hired Federal Interns and Recent Grads Are Staying in Government

Government Executive: More than 90 percent of federal interns, fellows and other non-competitively hired recent graduates planned to stay in government in the immediate future as of fiscal 2014, according to a new report from the Office of Personnel Management.

Additionally, 87 percent of the young workers hired through the Pathways Programs stayed in government for at least two years. President Obama created Pathways through a 2010 executive order to consolidate a patchwork of various hiring processes aimed at students and recent graduates. OPM studied the programs to ensure their fair and effective use, releasing a report Tuesday finding agencies were largely complying with the rules and benefiting from the initiative.

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