Veterans
Thank you for expressing an interest in employment opportunities with
the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Service).
Having spent more than twenty years in the military, I am well aware of the high
quality and experience of today's military veterans. With that
in mind, I would like for those military personnel and their dependents
who are leaving military service to come and join our service -- the U.S.
Fish & Wildlife
Service that is!
The Service is a bureau of the Department of the Interior and is the principal Federal agency in the United States responsible for working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
To accomplish the mission of the Service, we need individuals as diverse in discipline, background and experience as the species we protect. Our workforce consists of professional, technical, administrative, clerical, and wage grade personnel working in over 100 different occupational categories. Service employees have earned degrees in fields ranging from Accounting to Zoology.
The Service works to save endangered and threatened species; conserve migratory birds and inland fisheries; provide expert advice to other Federal agencies, industry, and foreign governments; and manage more than 700 field stations. Among those 700 field stations are seven Regional Offices, more than 500 national wildlife refuges, and nearly 80 national fish hatcheries that raise more than 200 million fish each year.
The way I see it, it would only be mutually beneficial for military veterans
to join the Service. After all, what better persons to have safeguarding
some of America's rich natural resources than those men and women who were
willing to go to her defense? Please contact me directly by email for more information on your opportunities with the Service at Jerry_Wells@ffs.gov.
Sincerely,
Jerry Wells
Affirmative Employment Program Officer
Applying Non-competitively
http://www.opm.gov/employ/veterans/html/vetsinfo.asp