Internship Opportunity at Georgetown

masquerade98
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 03:39:36 +0000

The Georgetown alumni network is incredibly helpful and is everywhere, especially in DC. While similar-tier schools will have similar levels of alumni, there’s a tangible difference between emailing an alumni/arranging a phone call and meeting them a block away from their office to do networking. I’m a current student in the SFS and previously interned in the federal government, where 4 out of 7 of the people in my office were Georgetown alums. All of them were more than happy to talk with me about future careers and were really useful in helping me decide whether that was a position I wanted to pursue full-time.

In recent years, Georgetown has also become known as somewhat of a refugee camp for ambassadors and career civil servants who were forced out due to the administration’s restructuring of career civil service positions. What that effectively means is a ton of mid-career people teaching classes and waiting to re-enter government. Given the amount of vacancies in most federal agencies right now, when they do re-enter government it’s likely that they’ll be hiring people to fill spots, and Georgetown students will likely have a first-shot at those jobs, since many of them will have taken classes with these professors. If you’re looking into public service, this is the place for you!