Federal Communications Commission

Mission:

To ensure that the American people have available—at reasonable costs and without discrimination—rapid, efficient, nationwide and worldwide services whether by radio, television, wire, wireless, satellite or cable.

Headquarters: Washington, D.C. Regional offices: Chicago, Kansas City and San Francisco. Sixteen district offices and nine resident offices nationwide.

• www.fcc.gov
• www.fcc.gov/jobs

Best Places Ranking

17

The Federal Communications Commission ranked 17th out of 32 agencies in the 2010 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings with an index score of 68.0.

Recruitment Program / Outreach Efforts

The FCC has several specialized programs to recruit for their key occupations. The Engineer-in-Training (EIT) program is designed to enable the agency to hire engineering school graduates with superior academic credentials and provide these individuals with comprehensive training in the field of communications. Likewise, a similar program is used for attorneys, the Attorney Honors Program, for recent law school graduates with superior academic credentials who undertake a two-year training and development program in the field of communications law and policy. For economists, the FCC advertises positions in professional publications/journals and conducts on-site recruitment at the American Economic Association meeting.

Hiring Projections

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will focus hiring on the mission critical occupations of attorney, economist and engineer over the next few years.

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Diversity Profile

Demographics source: FedScope, OPM

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