Public Service Career Support – Horizon Institute for Public Service

Horizon provides a suite of public service career support services designed to make insider information and advice about policy careers more accessible.

People hoping to transition into the policy and government world face many difficult questions: whether to go to graduate school, which policy jobs or fellowships to apply to, how to research which organizations are doing exciting work, and so forth. If you’re not already connected to experienced policy professionals, you might never find good answers.

Due to lack of access, many people who could make significant contributions are unable to make career transitions. In addition to hampering the government’s ability to craft informed policy, such issues also contribute to a lack of diversity in the policy world. By making “inside baseball” information and advice more accessible, our suite of career services reduce barriers to entry and help grow the community of emerging technology experts in public service.

Our career guide

Based on hundreds of hours of research and dozens of interviews with policy professionals, our website emergingtechpolicy.org provides expert advice and resources for people interested in public service and emerging technology. It includes original in-depth guides, resource lists, and first-person accounts from practitioners. It covers common pathways into policy, explainers on key institutions, resources on particular policy areas, collections of tips and resources, and career profiles of practitioners. We continue adding content to the website and encourage users to send us recommendations for what additional content they would like to see.

Visit emergingtechpolicy.org

This site is an incredible resource with advice, essential resources, and guides for anyone looking to make the move into public service. Check it out!

B Cavello

Director for Emerging Technologies, Aspen Institute

Fantastic resource! I wish I had this when I was first entering the policy world.

Georgia Lagoudas

Former AAAS Fellow, State Department, and White House staffer

Other policy career support

Alongside our organizational partners, we provide coaching services to help individuals think through career choices, research opportunities, get feedback on resumes, and prepare for interviews. We also notify aspiring policy professionals about relevant job opportunities, events, and other resources. To register interest in these services, please fill out our policy career support form.

Fill out our policy career support form

Thank you for all the resources you've given me…I feel prepared to go down this path in a way that I absolutely would not have without your help.

Horizon advisee

Thank you for being relentlessly helpful … your work to help people find impactful jobs — whether it's building a website with compiled resources or making yourself available as a sounding board — is so much appreciated.

Horizon advisee