Federal Career Intern Program
Executive Order 13162
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States of America, including sections
3301 and 3302 of title 5, United States Code, and in order to provide
for the recruitment and selection of exceptional employees for careers
in the public sector, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1.
There is hereby constituted the Federal Career Intern Program (Program).
The purpose of the Program is to attract exceptional men and women
to the Federal workforce who have diverse professional experiences,
academic training, and competencies, and to prepare them for careers
in analyzing and implementing public programs. "Career Intern" is
a generic term, and agencies may use occupational titles as appropriate.
Section 2.
The Program is another step
in the Administration's effort to recruit the highest caliber people
to the Federal Government, develop their professional abilities,
and retain them in Federal-departments and agencies. Cabinet secretaries
and agency administrators should view the Program as complementary
to existing programs that provide career enhancement opportunities
for Federal employees, and departments and agencies are encouraged
to identify and make use of those programs, as well as the new Program,
to meet department and agency needs.
Section 3 (a)
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) shall develop appropriate
merit-based procedures for the recruitment, screening, placement,
and continuing career development of Career Interns.
(b)
In developing those procedures, the OPM shall provide
for such actions as deemed appropriate to assure equal employment
opportunity and the application of appropriate veterans' preference
criteria.
Section 4. (a)
A successful candidate shall be appointed to a position in Schedule B of the excepted service
at the GS-5, 7, or 9 (and equivalent) or other trainee level
appropriate for the Program, unless otherwise approved by the OPM.
The appointment shall not exceed 2 years unless extended by the
Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of the OPM, for
up to 1 additional year.
(b)
Tenure for a Career Intern shall be governed by
the following principles and policies:
(1) Assigned responsibilities shall be consistent with
a Career Intern's competencies and career interests, and the purposes
of the Program.
(2) Continuation in the Program shall be contingent upon
satisfactory performance by the Career Intern throughout the internship
period.
(3) Except as provided in subsections (4) and (5) of this
section, service as a Career Intern confers no rights to further
Federal employment in either the competitive or excepted service
upon the expiration of the internship period.
(4) Competitive civil service status may be granted to
a Career Intern who satisfactorily completes the internship and
meets all other requirements prescribed by the OPM.
(5) Within an agency, an employee who formerly held a career
or career-conditional appointment immediately before entering
the Career Intern Program, and who fails to complete the Career
Intern Program for reasons unrelated to misconduct or suitability,
shall be placed in a career or career-conditional position in
the current agency at no lower grade or pay than the one the employee
left to accept the position in the Career Intern Program.
Section 5.
A Career Intern shall participate in a formal program of training and job assignments
to develop competencies that the OPM identifies as core to the Program,
and the employing agency identifies as appropriate to the agency's
mission and needs.
Section 6.
The OPM shall prescribe such regulations as it determines necessary to carry out the
purpose of this order.
Section 7.
The OPM shall provide oversight of the Program.
Section 8.
Executive Order 12596 of May 7, 1987, is revoked.
Section 9.
Judicial Review.
This order is intended only to improve the internal management of
the executive branch. It does not create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable in law or equity, by a party
against the United States, its agencies, its officers or employees,
or any other person.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 6, 2000.
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