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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My freshman DS got an internship in cyber security   with one of the government contractors because my sister is an SES level with the fed.  She called one of the PMs and asked and DS got hired for this '24 summer.  It is an eleven weeks internship and the pay is $40/hr.[/quote]

This is an ethics violation and she could be fired for using her federal status to gain advantage for her family. [/quote]

Yep, ethics violation.

I work in recruiting at a government agency and did not use my own access to get my college kid an internship.  My applied through usajobs at a different agency and got the job through their own effort. [/quote]

People do that all the time, and nobody that I know of has ever been fired.  It is rampant in [i]both government and private sectors[/i][b].[/quote]

But in the government, it is unethical/illegal.  (Nepotism in the private sector may or may not be illegal/unethical, depending on the situation.  But in the government, it is unethical/illegal.)[/quote]

Do you think government contractors are not the private sector?  Um. I would say at least 75 percent of kids I know with internships or who I have hired as interns have been through some connection - friend of a friend, or old neighbor or whatever. It's annoying but its the way the world works.  While plow through 100 resumes when the smart neighbor kid you've known for 6 years is looking? Human relationships matter a lot. Thus, make human relationships.[/quote]

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