Are you a Hotshot Supervisory Forestry Technician? If so, better include these keywords in your federal resume if you want to get Best Qualified. Look at the descriptions of the Duties, Specialized Experience and then the keyword list. These words are critical for the performance of this position.
Now is the time to look at the experience and training you’ll need, if you want to join the Senior Executive Service within five years. OPM’s Executive Core Qualifications narratives are a tool for assessing where you are, as well as applying for SES and Career Development Programs. Learn how to write the ECQs with the help of co-author’s Kathryn Troutman and Diane Hudson Burns’ new book The New SES Application and their January SES Writing Workshop held by the Federal Career Training Institute. Troutman offer tips to jumpstart the writing process.
The New SES Application, the latest title from noted Federal Career authors Kathryn Troutman and Diane Hudson Burns and award-winning Federal Career Publishers, adeptly covers the challenges and intricacies of applying for the best Federal jobs available today, the Senior Executive Service (SES).
Leaving a military career after 5, 10, or 20 years is traumatic. The career transition out of military is difficult no matter what your rank. The good news is that the federal government is basically just “the other side of the desk.†You’re going to take the “hands-on†skills…
Long KSA narratives may be on the way out, but this KSA written by Kathryn Troutman is a Fourth of July classic! This KSA features the Context, Challenge, Action, Results (CCAR) format preferred by federal human resources specialists. See our free KSA CCAR Builder to create your KSAs in the CCAR format. Read the original…
As a Federal Career Consultant and Federal Resume Writer, I am consulting with many federal job applicants who have submitted 100 to 400 job applications for federal jobs on USAJOBS by uploading their private industry resume. If you want to get Best Qualified for a federal position and hopefully get referred to a supervisor, you…
Federal jobseekers need to have confidence in the USAJOBS automated application system for federal promotions. These comments and complaints are the most prevalent among federal jobseekers. It’s time to debunk the myths and apply for more federal jobs the right away. True or False? USAJOBS resumes are scanned for keywords by an automated system. NOT…