The Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) is an internship program that connects federal sector employers nationwide with highly motivated college students and recent graduates with disabilities eager to apply their knowledge, skills and abilities in the workplace through summer internships.  

The WRP is sponsored and managed by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Office of Diversity Management & Equal Opportunity (ODMEO).  

Once selected for the program, students connect with an employee mentor.  Mentors assist disabled students selected for employment under the WRP with interviewing techniques, goal setting, the federal application process, and other workplace challenges. Students are eligible to work full-time for up to 14 weeks or part-time for up to 28 weeks.  

To be eligible for a WRP assignment, candidates must be:

• Currently enrolled in a full–time baccalaureate or graduate degree program which is primarily focused on skills that are critical to DIA, such as: foreign area studies, legal, computer science, business administration, human resources, public administration, international relations, political science, chemistry, physics, biology, microbiology, pharmacology, toxicology, engineering, or intelligence analysis related courses.
• Have completed a minimum of 60 semester hours or its equivalent and possess a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale or its equivalent at the time of application.
• Participants must have proof of a disability in order to participate in this program.
• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen.   
• All DIA employees are subject to initial and periodic counterintelligence (CI)-scope polygraph tests and drug tests.

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