Federal Careers by Field of Interest
Whether your field of expertise is engineering, health care, foreign languages, social sciences or business, there are federal jobs that need your talents and skills.
You might be wondering what you can do with your degree, how the government stacks up in your chosen field when it comes to pay and benefits, or where federal jobs in your discipline are located. We understand your questions, and have developed brief guides on federal opportunities across a range of professional fields. These guides are a terrific starting point as you begin to explore how you might use your skills and interests in the federal government.
Click on the links at left to learn more about opportunities in the federal government by specific fields.
Where the Jobs Are
Uncle Sam wants you! Where the Jobs Are: Mission Critical Opportunities for America, outlines government-wide projected hiring needs through 2009 and is based on a survey of 34 federal agencies representing nearly 99 percent of the federal workforce. The survey finds nearly 193,000 mission critical jobs need to be filled in the next two years!
Red, White & Blue Jobs Library
Resources to help you determine the range of places you might fit in federal public service.
Red, White & Blue Jobs
Our basic guide to the range of opportunities to make a meaningful difference and gain valuable experience in federal public service. This guide is appropriate for people with many different backgrounds, in many different departments.
Engineering
Engineers are considered critical to the mission of many government agencies. As an engineer in federal public service you have the opportunity to make a major difference in the lives of your fellow citizens, and the chance to work on large-scale projects at the entry level, gaining experience that will be valued in the public and private sectors.
Homeland Security
Our nation needs people with a range of backgrounds to serve their fellow citizens in the field of homeland security.
Business
There are many extraordinary ways for someone with training in business-related disciplines to make a difference in federal public service.
Public Health
The American public needs people with medical training in federal government service, and working for the federal government can afford opportunities to make a large-scale impact.
Liberal Arts
There are many exciting job opportunities for people who have been rigorously-trained in the liberal arts.