Workforce Recruitment Program

If you are a student with a disability, the Department of State is interested in you. We have partnered with the Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment and Policy, and the U.S. Department of Defense, who administer the Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) to hire college students with disabilities. The WRP is a recruitment and referral program that connects us to highly motivated post-secondary students and recent graduates with disabilities. We offer paid, full-time summer positions in Washington, D.C.

If you are an eligible student, share this information with your school's disability services or career services coordinator, and ask him or her to contact the WRP Coordinator at wrp@dol.gov. Please understand that we work directly with college coordinators, and cannot respond to inquiries from individual students.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for the WRP, students must be current, full-time undergraduate or graduate students with a disability, or have graduated within one year of the release of the database each March. For the 2010 WRP, a student who has graduated during the Spring semester of 2009 or later would still be eligible. Students must also be U.S. citizens.