Fresh from the Fountain

US Court of Appeals - Judicial Assistant Position
The Judicial Assistant provides administrative and caserelated support to Judge Pan and the law clerks working in her chambers. Duties include, but are not limited to: working with a wide range of staff throughout the courthouse to help fulfill chambers' duties and needs; developing and maintaining electronic and paper filing systems for chambers; conducting research for speeches; monitoring and managing incoming and outgoing email and paper correspondence; receptionist duties; preparing disclosure reports and travel vouchers; helping with annual interviewing and orienting of law clerks; coordinating logistics for any courses the judge may teach; and assisting with case preparation for moot courts. The start date for this position will be June 7, 2027. The position will not be available 
sooner.
Deadline: Open Until Filled

Clean Energy Fellowship Program
The Clean Energy Fellowship Program is designed to encourage and support interdisciplinary student research in topics that further the development of, and build student expertise in, clean energy concepts. Undergraduate and graduate university students at participating universities will be provided the opportunity to conduct paid, independent research in various sectors of clean energy, including solar, wind, geothermal, green hydrogen, fuel cells, biomass, tidal, nuclear, and hydropower, under the mentorship of a university faculty advisor over an academic year. In addition to financial stipends, students will receive the opportunity to gain industry knowledge through monthly cohort meetings, guest lectures, site visits, and other activities. Students will present their research findings to industry, academic, and community stakeholders at an annual Clean Energy Research Symposium. University awards are subject to availability of funding. 
Deadline: October 9, 2026
 

Brookings - Economics Research Assistant
Launch your career in economic policy research! Each year, Brookings Economic Studies hires approximately ten recent graduates to work alongside leading economists on research that informs national policy. Research assistants develop quantitative, analytical, and communication skills while contributing to work that reaches policymakers, researchers, and the public.
Deadline: October 16, 2026

Stanford Law School Empirical Research Fellowship
Assist Stanford Law School faculty, including economist Dr. John J. Donohue, in conducting policy-relevant empirical social science research. Designed for graduating seniors or recent college or master’s program graduates, the fellowship provides a unique opportunity for those considering graduate school, law school, and/or business school in the future.
Deadline: October 23, 2026 @ 7pm

Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy - Summer 2027 Intern
The Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy offers 10-week internships to qualified and motivated undergraduate and law school students. We strive to provide an intensive, practical, and worthwhile internship for students who are passionate about providing legal services to low-income people in Mecklenburg County and beyond.  Interns work directly with staff attorneys on assigned tasks include drafting documents, conducting research, attending community outreach events, and engaging with clients about their case. Law student work may also include interviewing clients and witnesses; collecting, evaluating, and preparing evidence for presentation; conducting legal research; drafting pleadings, briefs and other legal documents; and advocating for clients before administrative agencies.
Deadline: October 25, 2026

US Treasury: International Affairs Junior Fellowship
The Junior Fellowship program is a highly selective, fixed two-year program for new college graduates to work shaping international economic policy for the United States in Treasury’s Office of International Affairs. Fellows have left the program to pursue a range of opportunities, including employment at Treasury and elsewhere in the U.S. government, work in the private sector, and graduate study (e.g., law, public policy, international relations, and finance and business).
Deadline: October 31, 2026

New Jersey Courts - Internship Opportunities:
Appellate Division Chambers Track (Summer 2027) 
Mercer Vicinage Chambers Track (Summer 2027)
Public Policy Research Track (Summer 2027)
Deadline: December 1, 2026

James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program
Each year, through the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows program, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers approximately 15 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees nominated by several hundred participating universities and colleges. James C. Gaither Junior Fellows work as research assistants to Carnegie’s senior scholars. Please see your school’s nominating official to learn more about the college application process and please see our FAQ for eligibility requirements.
Deadline: January 15, 2026

Rise to Peace Research Fellowship
For students and emerging researchers who want structured, hands-on experience through real research, interviews, intelligence and data work, projects, and publication. Research Interns and Fellows commit 5–15 flexible hours per week.The fellowship typically runs from 3–6 months and may continue for up to 12 months, with a flexible commitment of about 5–15 hours per week. Participants work across areas including international affairs, security, counterterrorism, OSINT and data, research, analysis, and published writing. Link to Apply.
Deadline: Rolling

Asian American Voices Media (AAVM) - Princeton Language Fellowship
AAVM is seeking undergraduate and graduate student fellows to support its editorial review and translation-quality workflows during the academic semester. This fellowship offers hands-on experience at the intersection of journalism, public policy, and information integrity and is well-suited for students interested in media, governance, international affairs, or democratic institutions. The fellowship is remote, part-time, and structured to align with SPIA’s in-semester Field Requirement, subject to departmental approval. Please follow the above link for more information about the role and how to apply.
Deadline: Rolling

Asian American Voices Media (AAVM) - Princeton Editorial Fellowship
AAVM is seeking undergraduate and graduate student fellows to serve as Editorial Fellows, supporting the editorial selection and quality-control workflows that determine what AAVM covers during the academic semester. This fellowship offers hands-on experience at the intersection of journalism, public policy, and information integrity and is well-suited for students interested in media, governance, international affairs, or democratic institutions.
Deadline: Rolling

Brookings - The Hamilton Project 
Senior Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Join one of the most influential, most quoted, and most trusted think tanks! 
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to equip decision-makers with nonpartisan research and policy strategies to create a more prosperous and secure country and world.
Deadline: Rolling

Princeton In Washington
Launched over 60 years ago, the goal of Princeton in Washington (PIW) is to help introduce students like you to careers and life in Washington, D.C., through networking events with alumni, site visits, and social events! You’ll meet high-profile alumni from all walks of career paths in public service, politics, nonprofits, journalism, environment, law, and more! Beyond professional growth opportunities, PIW also offers fun outings and a way for students to build a community while in D.C. for the summer. Want to join our community and get updates on events going down this summer? Sign up for our newsletter HERE! 

SPIA in NJ - Undergraduate Internship Opportunities
SPIA in New Jersey has several internship opportunities with local and state organizations. Please use the link above to explore all the different organizations and internships available. 
Deadline: Rolling

Unified Site for All State Department Fellowships and Internships
If your students are seeking a substantive internship or fellowship supporting US foreign policy, the State Department has an aggregated website for opportunities. Opportunities are for a wide range of majors (from STEM to social sciences to the arts). They are in person and online. 
Deadline: Varies

Pitching Your Project Workshop: Strategies for Persuasive Proposals and Applications
Date: October 8 @ 4:45 - 6:00 p.m.
Location: McLain Pavilion, Frist Health Center
Registration Link
Funding applications, graduate school research statements, and senior thesis proposals are different and distinctive genres of academic writing, each with norms and conventions all their own. Yet they also share in common one key goal: persuading their readers that the intellectual product they promise to create is valuable, feasible, and impactful. How do successful applications and proposals achieve those goals? And what are some evidence-based steps that you can take to get your next proposal or application off to a strong start?
In this Writing Program workshop, we'll consider the science and art of effective project pitching across the University's many disciplines. We'll learn about the cognitive and emotional frames that academic evaluators use to assess intellectual merit. Whether you’re just getting started or have a proposal-in-progress, this workshop will guide you through the process of crafting a persuasive proposal. Email wid@princeton.edu with questions. 

Public Service Career Day
Date: October 9 @ 11am
Location: Robertson Hall, Bowl 16 (and various)
Learn about the wide range of public service career options Princetonians pursue. Our alumni panel will feature a discussion on AI and the future of Public Policy. We also have some exciting breakout sessions based on sectors.

Columbia Law School Info Session
Date: October 27 @ 4:30pm
Location: TBA

GoGovernment.org 
GoGovernment just got a major upgrade! Our long-trusted resource to navigate the federal government now includes:

• Resources on federal AND state government careers and hiring processes
• A revamped Public Service Internship Finder
• An interactive map to find internships and early-career government opportunities in all 50 states
• New career guides
• New pages to explore California state careers
• Access to new advisor tools and resources for members of our Call to Serve Network

Stokes Library Resources:
Stokes Viz Hub Fall 2026 workshops schedule

Civic Match - Powered by Work For America
Civic Match is a national hiring platform powered by Work for America that connects state and local governments with experienced professionals ready to serve communities where it matters most. Sign up with the link above and find your next public service opportunity.

Drop In: Free Copies of Translated Princeton University Press Books!
Stop by Princeton University Press to pick up free translated copies of their most popular books! Translations include Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese, among others. These books are across all subject areas: history, natural history, biology, sociology, literature, economics, and more! Please enter through Princeton University Press' main lobby doors located off of Williams Street. Upon arrival, please call ext 8168 (Louise Jennewine) or 8228 (Amanda Gillette).

The Rotary Club of Washington Global
The best way to get a job in this environment is Networking! Are you exploring careers in public service or international development? The Rotary Club of Washington Global’s Mentors for Young Professionals in International Development program connects students, recent graduates, and early-career professionals with experienced mentors from the public service and  global development field — including leaders from USAID, Peace Corps, World Bank, Global Communities,  and many more agencies and organizations.
- Free 30–60 minute mentoring sessions
- Learn about career pathways, grad school, and networking
- Open to all young professionals interested in public and global service
- Learn more and browse mentor bios

FedSupport Hub
The FedSupport Hub is a resource for former and current federal employees—a centralized and reliable place where they can find answers to their questions, share critical information and build community. This may be a helpful resource for the alumni you serve working in the federal government. 

GoinGlobal
This resource supports international students who are interested in working in the U.S., their home country or elsewhere, as well as U.S. students who want to work abroad. It includes job and internship listings, global resume and cover letter guidance, global key employer directory, country and city guides, global job market trends, work permit regulations and cultural advice. Its Country/City Guides and cultural information might be helpful for those of you who are sending students abroad this summer or post-graduation. GoinGlobal requires students, faculty, and staff to be logged into CAS to access.

Partnership for Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service and Amazon Web Services have collaborated to create this Agency Dashboard, which provides an overview of the workforce, employee experience, budgetary resources and information-technology maturity of 33 major federal agencies, each with more than 1,000 employees. The dashboards offer a snapshot of critical data points that illustrate the organizational health of specific agencies and the executive branch as a whole, helping agency leaders, congressional offices, the media and other stakeholders identify areas for further focus.

Virtual Volunteer Opportunities with the United Nations
For students and alumni who still want to gain experience while they cannot leave home, the UN Online Volunteer Corps may be helpful. Online volunteering allows organizations and volunteers to team up to address sustainable development challenges – anywhere in the world, from any device. 
More information and how to apply, linked here.

Virtual Student Federal Service
The Virtual Student Federal Service connects the talents of U.S. citizen college students with the needs of federal agencies. Since 2009, more than 10,000 remote interns have advanced the work of the federal government. The time commitment is about 10 hours per week during the school year. There are opportunities for all, from data visualization to political analysis. Internships are paid but may be eligible for course credit. 
More information and how to apply are linked here.

Princeton Experimental Laboratory (PExL) for Social Sciences
PExL is open for registration at pexl.lab.run. Why register? Because your participation will earn you cash (about $25 an hour), because you’ll take part in frontier science, and because you might have fun—most experiments will allow you to strategize in computer-based interactions. If you have any questions, please contact us at pexl@princeton.edu.

USAJOBS Resume Best Practices
Per the Merit Hiring Plan, all federal resumes are not to exceed two pages as of September 27. USAJOBS has created a technical solution that will limit resumes to two pages when submitting applications or using the USAJOBS resume builder. Below are some best practices from the Call to Serve Team when navigating these changes and rewriting the federal resume. 
Content: 

• Prioritize recent work experience that is most relevant to the duties and qualifications listed on the job announcement. “Recent experience” and “relevant experience” are not the same thing. De-prioritize or remove non-relevant and outdated work experience.
• Align any work experience on the resume to qualifications listed on the job announcement.
• Use plain language that is understood by HR specialists and hiring managers. When you apply for a job, an HR Specialist will most likely review your resume first to determine whether you are qualified for the job.
• Use language that is results focused and includes numbers and metrics to quantify your work.
• You can include volunteer work, internships, and other non-paid work; these will still count towards your total years of experience.
• Ask yourself: Can the HR professional reading this, who may not have direct experience in my fiend, understand my experience in 10-15 seconds?

Formatting:

• USAJOBS recommends using at a minimum of .5 margins, 10-pt size font for main content and 14-pt size for headings.
• Use a font that is easy to read, such as Lato, Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans.
• Uploading a PDF resume is the best practice to maintain formatting and the number of pages, but many file types are accepted.

Make your resume searchable:

• Recruiters may contact people in their database to apply for jobs not posted on USAJOBS or only available at career fairs.
• Resumes can only be searchable for 18 months, and only 1 resume at a time can be searchable.  
• Only 1–2-page resumes will be searchable; all resumes that were previously searchable expired on September 27th, so USAJOBS users will need to go back and update the searchable resume.

USAJOBS will not delete or remove any resumes or profiles after September 27th. However, existing uploaded resumes will be seen as ineligible if they are longer than 2 pages. The Partnership expects there will be more updates and opportunities to learn more about the changes to federal resumes and other hiring considerations in the federal government. To stay up to date, we encourage Call to Serve Network members to follow USAJOBS and OPM on LinkedIn.

USAJOBS Career Explorer
The USAJOBS Career Explorer helps job seekers find occupations in the federal government that align with their career interests. Job seekers answer a series of questions that result in a matched list of federal occupational series. The list offers explanations of jobs in plain language and links to relevant open job announcements. The Career Explorer covers over 300 occupations in the General Schedule and Wage Grade pay scale.  

Early Career Page
The Early Career Page is a central hub of information and resources for students, recent graduates and non-college degree seeking individuals who are early in their career. Information on the page includes the benefits of working for the federal government, tips to navigate the federal application process and best practices for federal resumes. The page also links to the Federal Internship Portal and the Recent Graduate Portal to easily connect page visitors to these early career jobs. 

Federal Internship Finder
This resource—part of GoGovernment.org—houses nearly 1,000 federal opportunities and had nearly 90,000 visits in its first year. We recently added two new search filters to the finder to make this tool even more effective for you and your students.

Practice Foreign Service Officer Test
The State Department offers a practice Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT). The purpose of the practice FSOT is to provide a realistic preview of the computer-based FSOT and an estimate of the likelihood of passing.

Google Interview WarmUp
DYK Google has a tool that lets students practice interview responses, get AI-generated insights into their answers, and get more comfortable interviewing for select fields.

Advice on Quality Letters of Recommendation
Letters of Recommendation provide valuable insights into a candidate. If students are struggling to figure out how to secure the "right" letters, here is a piece I wrote with 5 Tips for a Quality Letter of Recommendation. Printable copy linked here

Unified Site for All State Department Fellowships and Internships
If your students are seeking a substantive internship or fellowship supporting US foreign policy,the State Department has an aggregated website or opportunities. Opportunities are for a wide range of majors (from STEM to social sciences to the arts). They are in person and online.

Stanford Law School Empirical Research Fellowship
Assist Stanford Law School faculty, including economist Dr. John J. Donohue, in conducting policy-relevant empirical social science research. Designed for graduating seniors or recent college or master’s program graduates, the fellowship provides a unique opportunity for those considering graduate school, law school, and/or business school in the future.
Deadline: October 23, 2026 @ 7pm

US Treasury: International Affairs Junior Fellowship
The Junior Fellowship program is a highly selective, fixed two-year program for new college graduates to work shaping international economic policy for the United States in Treasury’s Office of International Affairs. Fellows have left the program to pursue a range of opportunities, including employment at Treasury and elsewhere in the U.S. government, work in the private sector, and graduate study (e.g., law, public policy, international relations, and finance and business).
Deadline: October 31, 2026

Asian American Voices Media (AAVM) - Princeton Language Fellowship
AAVM is seeking undergraduate and graduate student fellows to support its editorial review and translation-quality workflows during the academic semester. This fellowship offers hands-on experience at the intersection of journalism, public policy, and information integrity and is well-suited for students interested in media, governance, international affairs, or democratic institutions. The fellowship is remote, part-time, and structured to align with SPIA’s in-semester Field Requirement, subject to departmental approval. Please follow the above link for more information about the role and how to apply.
Deadline: Rolling

Asian American Voices Media (AAVM) - Princeton Editorial Fellowship
AAVM is seeking undergraduate and graduate student fellows to serve as Editorial Fellows, supporting the editorial selection and quality-control workflows that determine what AAVM covers during the academic semester. This fellowship offers hands-on experience at the intersection of journalism, public policy, and information integrity and is well-suited for students interested in media, governance, international affairs, or democratic institutions.
Deadline: Rolling

P*Law Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS)
The P*LAW Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) program offers Princeton undergraduates opportunities to engage with P*LAW faculty and staff via special programming for law-interested undergraduates. You will also be eligible to receive funding to support participation in legal research.  Students who join the PLUS cohort commit to the following :

• Attending two of P*LAW’s events each academic year
• Participating in a set of pre-law advising panels and lunches
• Enrolling in a PLUS Program Canvas page

To join PLUS, please fill out this form(Link is external). For further information, contact the faculty advisor, Prof. Lynda Dodd (lyndadodd@princeton.edu). To view our PLUS Scholars for 2024-2025, please click here. P*LAW Resources. PLUS October Updates.

More information soon!