AFTERNOON CLASS: Kathryn Troutman, Federal Resume Guru and Author, Speaker TEN STEPS TO A FEDERAL JOB® Free Webinar Top Tips for Military Spouses and Federal Jobs Military Spouse Preference May 11, 12 noon to 12:45 Register here April 11, 2018, RAF, Mildenhall, London, England. Author and instructor, Kathryn Troutman presented a two-hour version of Ten…
By Kathryn Troutman President, The Resume Place, Inc. and Ten Steps to a Federal Job Certification Program Director March 22, 2018 I got an email from Paula Galloway, who is the Schedule A Program Manager at IRS – and who recently won the 2018 Employee of the Year Award from Employment Opportunity Publications! She cares…
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 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…
How to Get In On the Hiring Free-For-All for Border Patrol Agents By Kathryn Troutman, RP President The Resume Place, Inc., and Creator and Program Director, Ten Steps to a Federal Job Certification Program Published August 1, 2017 Uncle Sam is looking for a few good Border Patrol Agents – 5,000 of them, in fact.…
TOP TIPS AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM FEDERAL RESUME WRITING CLASS AT THE HIRING OUR HEROES TRANSITION SUMMIT, FT. BRAGG, APRIL 26, 2017 By Kathryn Troutman, President, Resume Place, Inc. Left to Right – Daniel Serrano, Ten Steps Trainer; Kathryn Troutman; and Cecelia Wallace, Director, Army Community Services Center, Ft. Bragg, NC I got to the…
COMING HOME FROM YOUR VOLUNTEER DEPLOYMENT TO THE MIDDLE EAST: LET THE RESUME PLACE HELP YOU FIND YOUR NEW STATESIDE OPPORTUNITY By Kathryn Troutman, RP President and Ellen Lazarus, J.D., CFJST/ CFCC The Department of Defense (DOD) relies on a mix of volunteer federal civilian employees (from DOD civilian and other federal agency civilian workforces)…
Hiring Freeze Exemption: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) Plans to Make Over 10,000 Hires Based on Executive Orders from Jan 25-28, 2017 Yes the federal government is in a hiring freeze, but there will be a total of 15,000 jobs opening up with DHS! With President Trump’s recent Executive Orders, the Immigration and Customs…