U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Nashville District

You need to be able to apply the concepts you learned in economics in nontraditional ways. You would be helping to answer the question, "Where should we allocate scarce government resources?" For instance, what is the opportunity cost of spending X years and Y amount of money to build something? ...

You'll have work on a wide range of projects ranging from large and slow to small and relatively fast (by government standards). You will find yourself working with GIS a lot (you might talk about your willingness to learn GIS). You will create spreadsheet models as well as work with other modeli...

The culture is pretty relaxed (it can get less so as deadlines approach but I think that's natural). They are pretty collaborative. They take the long view on their personnel. It's very easy to move inside the Corps and there is a general willingness to allow things like regular telework and even...

You can expect to work 40 hours/week with very few exceptions. I have been able to pursue my masters while working full time. Overtime is paid for anything over 40 hours and it must be justified beforehand. People frequently work alternative schedules. They are very accommodating on things like k...

You should be able to work hard and learn. Be communicative, especially with your supervisors and project managers. If you're behind on something, let the project manager know before he or she has to hunt you down. If you run into issues, let your project manager know and then ask for help from y...