Time to Take Inventory: Cataloging Your Skills and Accomplishments for Your Next Career Move Whether you’re contemplating your next career move or simply want to better understand your professional value, now is the perfect time to take a comprehensive inventory of your professional assets. Just as a business conducts regular inventory assessments to understand what’s…
Your Next Chapter: Career Transition Support for Federal Employees in the Deferred Resignation Program Baltimore, MD, Kathryn Troutman, September 27, 2025. For federal employees who have opted into the Deferred Resignation Program, the path ahead represents both an ending and a new beginning. While this transition marks the close of your federal service chapter, it also…
Sept. 27, 2025 – Deadline for 2-Page Federal Resumes in USAJOBS. Federal Resume Expert Kathryn Troutman Unveils Essential Strategies for Crafting Winning 2-Page Federal Resumes in Competitive Federal Jobs Market New guidance addresses critical challenge facing federal job seekers: How to condense comprehensive work histories into powerful, targeted applications that meet agency requirements and stand out…
Federal Resume Guidebook, 8th EdIs the Ultimate Introduction to New 2-Page Federal Resume The Federal Resume Guidebook, 8th Edition:First-Ever Book on Writing the Two-Page Federal Resumeis currently available as an eBook for $21.95 now on the Resume Place website.The print version can ship on September 10, 2025. ORDER NOW (August 15, 2025) – On May 29, 2025,…
Aug 12, 2025, Catonsville, MD Kathryn Troutman, Founder, Senior Instructor Certified Federal Job Search Trainer® / Certified Federal Career Coach® / Ten Steps to a New Career® for 2025 What’s New? The Stars Are Lined Up For Military Spouses® is an all-new book and curriculum for 2025. This new text covers: Part 1:…
June 10, 2025 – Kathryn Troutman, President, Resume Place, Inc. To Federal Employees: Get ready everyone… for the biggest Federal Application Change since Reinvention Government in 1976 by VP Al Gore who said “that the government should accept a resume like the rest of the world” – eliminating the green and white SF-171. And ……
Aug 12, 2025 – Steve McKenna, Ph.D., M.F.A., Senior Executive Service Coach and Writer, Resume Place, Inc. Writing Short, Punchy Accomplishments in Two-Page Private Industry Resumes I recently started reading “flash fiction,” a (sometimes corny) literary genre where the writer tells a compelling story in a very short scope—perhaps a few hundred words or even just a line or…
Francis Scott Key’s ECQ CCAR Happy Independence Day from Resume Place! Introduction Here at Resume Place, as a Federal Career Coach® I am constantly coaching my clients to write “leadership stories” about their accomplishments to demonstrate SES Executive Core Qualifications – in the required CCAR format (Context, Challenge, Action, Results). Personally, I am inspired by…
Despite widespread federal cutbacks, valuable pathways still exist for new graduates seeking government careers. The Current Federal Employment Climate If you’ve been following the news about federal employment, you know the landscape has changed dramatically in 2025. The federal government is currently under a hiring freeze that began in January and has been extended through July 15th.…
Part of the dismay experienced by federal employees facing the untimely end of a productive career in public service is the realization that a brand-new type of resume is needed. How do you go about translating federal experience into expertise that private sector employers will value? How do you condense decades of commitment to mission…