CyberCorps grads consider private sector as fed hiring challenges persist

In mid-February, hundreds of CyberCorps students and recent graduates logged into the program’s virtual career fair, cautiously hopeful of finding a federal job that would fulfill the requirement to serve in government in return for their scholarship.

In past years, many CyberCorps grads had walked away from the annual fair with job offers in hand. The event gives scholarship recipients a chance to connect directly with agency recruiters and apply for jobs on the spot.

But this year, the typical in-person career fair had been shifted to the virtual platform. Instead of the 75-plus agencies that typically showed up to the in-person fair, roughly 40 agencies were at February’s virtual event.

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