CHIPS Articles: When you want more than a job, you want a mission
When you want more than a job, you want a mission
NGA’s 2020 Intern Program -- Applications due Sept 30
By CHIPS Magazine
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May 21, 2019
Are you looking for an internship opportunity to develop your skills, enhance your career potential, and make a global difference each day? As a member of NGA’s elite student workforce, you will see first-hand how the work you are doing supports homeland security, disaster relief, and our nation’s warfighters.
<p>NGA views student employees as its future workforce, so work assigned to students is highly professional and conducted in a learning environment that provides each student real-world experience and an opportunity to be evaluated for potential long-term employment. </p>
<p>Student employment assignments are based on entry-level professional job descriptions designed to create a great deal of independent work and team collaboration under the guidance of a senior-level supervisor and mentors. </p>
<p>Each intern will have a project or projects set by their supervisor. Student Programs also holds informational events for interns, luncheons, after-work socials, and more. Interns have to opportunity to present their project at the end of the summer and also get to participate in a forum with the agencies top executives. </p>
<p>NGA’s student internship program is open to a diverse range of students and includes significant benefits. </p>
<p>Open to associate, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students <br/>
Open to a large variety of degree fields (<a href="https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/icstudents.html?Agency=NGA" alt='Link will open in a new window.' target='whole'>Click here to learn more about student programs at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency</a>.) <br/>
<p>NGA’s interns experience many of the benefits of full-time employees. </p>
-- Paid with sick and annual leave. <br/>
-- Onsite workout facility with three hours of paid leave a week. <br/>
-- MaxiFlex Work Schedules.<br/>
-- Work/Life Balance.<br/>
-- With a successful evaluation at the end of the summer, interns could be invited back for multiple summers.<br/>
-- Upon successful evaluation and mission need, there is a chance for interns to ‘convert’ to a full-time employee after their graduation.<br/>
<p><a href="https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/icstudents.html?Agency=NGA" alt='Link will open in a new window.' target='whole'>CLICK: Learn more about student programs at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and how to apply!</a> </p>
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