Title: Federal Resume Guidebook: First-Ever Book on Federal Resume Writing Featuring the Outline Format Federal Resume
Publisher: Resume Place Pr
Publication Date: 2020
Language: English
ISBN 10: 173340760X
ISBN 13: 9781733407601
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Acceptable

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Independent Press Award Winner (2021):
Best 2021 Reference Book - Federal Resume Guidebook, 7th Edition

Ben Franklin Award Winner (2021):
GOLD - Reference Category - Federal Resume Guidebook, 7th Edition
SILVER - Business / Careers - Federal Resume Guidebook, 7th Edition

Stumped? Stuck? Need info or inspiration to write your federal resume? Top fed jobs trainer Kathryn Troutman's Federal Resume Guidebook was the 1st book on these longer resumes, and it is the best-selling guide to writing them. The 7th Edition is 90% new with more resume samples and case histories than ever! You ll find 17 sample federal resumes and 20+ accomplishment stories. The resumes include before and after resume samples, so you can easily see what you re doing wrong and how to write it right.

Remember, federal resumes are different than private industry resumes. This book helps you navigate the differences.

The Guide's New Organization jumps right in with step-by-step directions for writing an easy-to-follow, stand-out Federal Resume using the Troutman-designed Outline Format that OPM welcomes. It then addresses a wider range of Possible Goals of Jobseekers.

Part 1: 9 Strategies for Writing a Successful (Outline Format) Resume

Part 2: 10 Steps to Getting Promoted in Government

✓ Federal to federal advancement

Part 3: Federal Career Change Stories

✓ Private sector to federal job
✓ Recent graduate to federal job
✓ Extreme career change in government
✓ Federal employee to private sector

Part 4: Special Insights for Information Technology Specialists

The Guide s comprehensive offering of Resume Samples includes such hot careers as:

✓ FBI Special Agent
✓ Information Technology Specialist

How-to's covered include:

A step-by-step process for developing the outline format federal resume HR loves

Discovering your knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) through a fun how many hats do you wear on the job? exercise

How to find keywords from vacancy announcements to use in your resume

Mining previous experience by using your performance reviews

How to write accomplishment stories to make HR take notice of your resume

Tackling the required OPM core competencies (through the rarely covered example of secret service position core competencies)

Submitting your resume and questionnaire to USAJobs

How to interview and land the position

Special considerations for getting promoted

How to make those challenging career changes

Want a new federal job? This is the book you need to get there.

About the Author

Kathryn Troutman lives in Catonsville, MD and is the founder and president of The Resume Place, Inc., a service business located in Baltimore, MD. Resume Place specializing in writing and designing professional federal and private-sector resumes, as well as coaching and education in the federal hiring process. For the past 40 years, Troutman has managed her professional writing and consulting practice, publishing, and federal career training business. With her team of 20 Certified Federal Resume Writers, The Resume Place advises and writes more than 300 federal resumes per month for military, private industry, and federal clients world-wide.

Internationally recognized as the "Federal Resume Guru" by federal jobseekers and federal human resources specialists, Troutman created the format and name for the new "federal resume" that became an accepted standard after the SF 171 form was eliminated in 1995. She is the pioneering designer of the Federal Resume based on her first book, the Federal Resume Guidebook, which already is in the fourth edition.

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