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Now, as director of the Office of Personnel Management, I\u2019m working to deliver on the opportunities I was so eager for all those years ago,\u201d Ahuja wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/us-opm.medium.com\/ahuja-my-first-job-after-graduating-college-was-with-the-federal-government-5f2e32647371\" target=\"_blank\">Medium<\/a> post about the new authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOften times, opportunities like this are locked behind financial barriers. When the gateway to a federal career is an unpaid internship, the most likely people to make it through are the ones who can afford to work for free. 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