Provides permanent Federal employment opportunities.
Offers students work experience directly related to the student's academic program and career goals.
Allows students to be noncompetitively converted to a career, career-conditional, or term appointment. at the completion of their degree--diploma or certificate--if they have completed at least 640 hours of work for the agency.
Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP)
Provides temporary Federal employment opportunities.
Does not require that the work be in a field related to the student's education.
Does not provide for conversion to a permanent appointment at the end of the temporary employment. However, students may be non-competitively converted to SCEP positions.