Recent Graduates are seeking careers in public service. The government is hiring and the "Pathways Programs" have been created by President Obama to recruit students:
- as interns who are enrolled at least half-time in qualifying educational programs
- for the Pathway Recent Graduates Program, which is for applicants who have completed qualifying post-high school educational programs
- and the Presidential Management Fellows Program which targets graduate and post-graduate degree holders interested in the junior ranks of federal management.
With the recent high retirements in government, there are upcoming positions for new graduates with all majors.
The Student's Federal Career Guide is a student career resource that helps students understand USAJOBS, which is the is the United States Government's official website for listing civil service job opportunities with federal agencies, so that they can emphasize their qualifications, skills, and competencies for positions targeted to the latest class of graduates.
Recent graduates do not know that the federal resume is not the same as the private industry resume. This new edition shows former students how to feature education, courses, papers and projects from college courses increasing their chances of getting hired.
The Student's Federal Career Guide includes sample resumes, charts and screen shots from USAJOBS.
This book is a "Foreword's" Annual Book of the Year Award nominee:
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Kathryn Kraemer Troutman is the founder and president of The Resume Place, Inc., a service business and website (resume-place.com) 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 30 years, Troutman has managed her Professional Writing and Consulting Practice, Publishing and Federal Career Training business, and 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 fifth edition.
Troutman is an in-demand, government contract career trainer, who has trained thousands of federal employees in writing federal resumes, KSAs, Resumix, USAJOBS and Quickhire resumes for more than 150 federal agencies in the United States and Europe. Her Federal Career Training courses and publications are listed on the GSA Schedule for government agency purchase. Her popular Web site, resume-place.com, receives more than 50,000 visitors per month, and provides online tools to assist with federal resume writing and federal job searches to jobseekers worldwide.
Some of Troutman's other federal career publications include the Federal Resume Guidebook, the award-winning Student's Federal Career Guide and Ten Steps to a Federal Job, and the Military to Federal Career Guide, which is used in every Navy and Marine Corps base, and most Air Force career transition centers in the world.
