Tiffany McCants is a proactive problem solver. In 2001, while the rest of the U.S. was grappling with an economic recession and rising unemployment, McCants was a junior in college. She was still a year from graduation with a degree in mathematics and business, but she saw the writing on the wall. "I had friends who were engineers who couldn't find work in their field, for years," she recalled. So she started looking for internships to make herself more marketable to employers. That's when she found out about the DOD Student Career Experience Program (now the DOD Internship Program), and she applied for a position in the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Integrated Logistics Support Center. "Honestly, I had no idea what TACOM was, or what they did," she said. "I went in for an interview and I'd never been more nervous in my life. It's so funny to think about, now." Nervous or not, she must have done something right, because she got the job. And she's been an Army civilian ever since.
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