Summary: Agencies will soon have a new way to recruit and hire more student interns. The Office of Personnel Management has a new authority that allows agencies to skip the usual job posting requirements and directly recruit students as paid interns. The authority also allows them to noncompetitively convert successful interns as permanent federal employees. This is the second time OPM has used the regulatory process this summer to tweak the federal hiring process. Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko joined the Federal Drive to explain the new intern hiring authority and why it matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
