WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
CAREER FAIR
DOD organization participation in career fairs aids student awareness to civilian career path options. (Photo by Janecze Wright, Fort Hood Public Affairs)
“Tis is a big deal,” Faria said. “It means that the student doesn’t have to apply for a permanent position and compete against other applicants for the job.”
Yet only 20% of Army DCAIP participants (21 out of a total 111 interns) have taken advantage of federal civilian job place- ment available to those who have successfully completed the internship joining the Army Acquisition Workforce. HCI advised placement across all branches of service is about 25%, as federal service may not be for everyone—and that is the point. Intern- ships like DCAIP provide an avenue for students to test the waters before graduation.
Tat experience was “absolutely worth it” and “life changing” for Aaron Feld, who was part of the first Army DCAIP itera- tion in summer 2020. Feld learned about the internship after a family member forwarded a posting from USAJobs. As a junior majoring in game design and development at Rochester Institute of Technology, the completion of two internships was a require- ment, and DCAIP was a perfect fit. Feld said DOD was “on the
list” to apply for coding jobs following graduation as organiza- tions such as the National Security Agency and Microsoft had attended his school’s career fairs.
During DCAIP, Feld was hired for the summer by the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) within the Automotive Director- ate’s Reliability, Availability, Maintainability/Integrated Logistics Support Branch, where he joined a project that focused mostly on front-end web design, something he already had experience with as part of his major.
“It was the first time I was able to put into practice everything I was learning in school, and I was able to get a feel for a real-life work environment,” he said.
At the end of the internship, Army ATC stayed in contact with Feld and asked if he was interested in accepting a job.
“Tat was an immediate plus,” Feld said in making the decision to join the Army civilian team. “But also, I liked the work that I
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