By Jeffrey Levy
Wanna work for EPA? The first thing you need to do is find job openings and choose which ones to apply for.
At EPA, like every federal agency, we put our job listings on usajobs.gov. Normally, you need to go to that site and search for what interests you. For example, here are our job listings .
Recently, we discovered that there’s a RSS feed associated with each search. If you’re not familiar with RSS feeds, that just means we can pull a particular search into various other places. So far, we’re putting them in three new places:
- on Twitter at a new account, @EPAjobs
- on our long-standing Facebook page, which will now also include automated job posts
- in daily emails you can subscribe to
We’re also working on an email subscription service, so you can get a daily email with that day’s listings.
If you have your own Web page or blog, you can also grab our job search widget. That’ll let your readers easily search for EPA jobs right from our site. Here’s how it’ll look:
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All of this is really just the start to help you find EPA jobs and understand what’s it like to work for EPA (I should mention that I love working here, and I’ve got 17 years in so far). Over the next several months, we’re going to revamp our current careers site to really take advantage of social media and multimedia.
Got any ideas on what we should include in the new site? Share ‘em below!
About the author: Jeffrey Levy is EPA’s Director of Web Communications
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