How do you find Capitol Hill jobs? Nothing to it. Contact your home representative's DC office and ask to set up a meeting with the Chief of Staff. It does not matter what party it is... well, sort of. Your only concern at this time is meeting this person or the represenative if you're lucky. The point is to make this person your primary contact for the time being if you do notknow anyone connected to Capitol Hill.
Call and email this person. Set upa time to meet with them to discuss potential vacancies in that office or discuss your resume, goals and experience. If you can afford to do an internship, then ask this person if you can do it in that office or in another office they can put you in contact with (or in one you can feel more comfortable working in).
If you choose not to go the internship route, ask the Chief of Staff who you can talk to next in another congressional office. You might try the two senators next. Ask to meet with their chiefs of staff. Ultimately you'llmeet with enough people you willhave a small number of contacts you didn't have before.
Keep in touchwith these people every month or two if you have zero luck finding any Capitol Hill jobs. They'lllet you know what they hear if you keep in contactwith them. It works out that way a lot of times. And sometimes if an opportunity becomes available in that office, they may contact you if they liked you enough or need someone from the district or state you are from.
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