By Kathryn Troutman President, The Resume Place, Inc. and Ten Steps to a Federal Job Certification Program Director March 19, 2018 REGISTER FOR OUR FEDERAL JOBS WEBINAR, Mar. 22, 2018 CLICK HERE As any military spouse will tell you, being married to the military with moving up to 10 times in 20 years, can make…
By Kathryn Troutman President, The Resume Place, Inc. and Ten Steps to a Federal Job Certification Program Director March 6, (updated March 12) 2018 TYPICAL FEDERAL AGENCIES FOR VETERANS! BUT THERE’S MORE! Tell me, when you think of military folks retiring or separating and taking their skills to a job in government, what federal organizations…
By Kathryn Troutman, Author and Publisher Resume Place, Baltimore, MD Publisher February 28, 2018 Do you want a federal resume that will get Best Qualified, Referred, get you an Interview and hopefully get you HIRED? Buy one of the latest books on federal resume writing with the most current samples. The resume formats in the…
By Kathryn Troutman President, The Resume Place, Inc. & Federal Career Coach™ Director, Ten Steps to a Federal Job® Certification Program February 20, 2018 Like so many presidents before him, Donald Trump has promised to streamline government, in part by trimming the federal workforce. But there are good reasons to believe that Uncle Sam will…
VA Expedites Hiring for Occupations with ‘Severe Shortage of Candidates’ By Kathryn Troutman President, The Resume Place, Inc. and Ten Steps to a Federal Job Certification Program Director January 24, 2018 The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a few good professionals. This recent article from Government Executive Magazine describes the Expedited Hiring Authority…
Here’s a look back at the most popular Federal Resume Columns by Resume Place according to Google Analytics! By Kathryn Troutman, President, Resume Place, Inc. January 10, 2018 Avoid These 10 Common Pitfalls in Your Resume in 2012 The new top 10 includes the most common problems we have seen in working with our clients…
Have a Happy New Year and Stop Making these Top Federal Resume Mistakes in 2018 By Kathryn Troutman, President, Resume Place, Inc. and Founder Ten Steps to a Federal Job Certified Federal Job Search® Trainer Program BIGGEST MYTH IN FEDERAL RESUME WRITING: Artificial intelligence machines read federal resumes for the qualifications – NOT actual Human…
By Kathryn Troutman, Ten Steps Director December 13, 2017 This Train-the-Trainer program was established in 2002 by Kathryn Troutman and is STILL the ONLY Certification program for Training and Coaching Jobseekers with Federal Job Search, Federal Resumes, USAJOBS and Special Hiring Programs. More than 250 employment readiness, transition specialists, veteran’s representatives and career counselors trained…
New Résumé Page Limit for USCIS Job Applications By Kathryn Troutman, Program Director, Ten Steps Certification Programs – 2018 December 1, 2017 Effective January 1, 2018, résumés must not be longer than five (5) pages when applying for USCIS jobs. USCIS is implementing this policy in an effort to reduce HR Specialist and hiring manager…
By Kathryn Troutman, Federal Resume and USAJOBS Trainer Published September 25, 2017 Office of Personnel Management IT specialist programmers have been working overtime. About every week there are new colorful bars, widgets and dropdowns and announcement sections. I like most of it. But the HR specialists who work for the agencies can’t keep up with…