The Right Resume Gets the Federal Job

The Right Resume Gets the Federal JobThe Right Resume Gets the Federal JobThe Right Resume Gets the Federal Job Heres Statistical Proof that the Right Resume Gets the Federal JobBy Kathryn Troutman, President The Resume Place, Inc., andCreator and Program Director,Ten Steps to a Federal Job Certification ProgramPublished June 23, 2017For decades, weve felt supremely confident that a targeted, detailed, correctly formatted OUTLINE FORMAT federal resume gets results.And now we have up-to-the-minute data that demonstrates that ourconfidence isnt just an intuition.In late May, we surveyed the 150 clients who we were honored to serve in 2016, yielding 54 responses. A large majority of these respondents had great news to share with us 25 had been hired into federal job, and another 16 had earned the status referred, best qualified or interviewedThese numbers are backed up by anecdotes Ive heard from many, many clients from military veterans to women returning to work after their children began school that theyve achieved incredible success in their professional careers with the federal government. But I was still pleasantly surprised at the outstanding results that our resume preparation services have contributed to 74 percent of our 2016 clients have seen positive action on their federal applicationsWHAT ur CLIENTS SAY ABOUT OUR FEDERAL RESUME WRITINGOne of our 2016 clients even gave us statistics on their individual federal job search With the resume you prepared, I was best qualified for about 85 percent of the jobs I applied for, referred for about 75 percent of them, and landed interviews for about 25 percent.Another client shared that, after she posted her Resume Place resume on USAJOBS.gov,I was hired as a contracting specialist. Thank you for the resume, which was phenomenal. It was geared towards the announcement and hit all the key points.Lets talk about her final remark How my colleagues and I can take the raw material of your draft resume and transform it so that federal hiring managers and human resources professionals can easily see how your perfected resume stands out to qualify you for the position you seek.BEFORE AND AFTER FEDERAL RESUME HIRED Take a look at these anonymized before-and-after resumes of decorated veteran of the seestreitmacht Corps, a helicopter crew chief who served in Iraq.Here is the Marine veterans resume before and afterwe helped him adapt it for Federal Human Resources Recruiters.Click to view before and after resumesWhen this war hero came to us with the resume he had been using, we had our work cut out for us. His resume lacked detail on his extensive military experience, including his specialized experience in security, which was ultimately critical to his successful application for the civilian position of Security Assistant or Intelligence Analyst. He wanted to CHANGE HIS CAREER And we had to translate his skills carefully. How did we improve our heros resume?We headlined his most impressive q ualification for any security job his interim top-secret security clearanceWe detailed his professional experience in security and safetyWe used the right keywords to describe his organizational skills, with subheadings like Scheduling and Coordination and Plan and Organize WorkWe detail his supervisory experience with terms like Team LeadSince the job he sought requires the ability to train others, we highlighted his experience in leading Army training classesWe named his accomplishments explicitly they did not stand out in his old resumeWe eliminated the irrelevant, such as the bartending job that was prominent on his old resumeFEDERAL RESUME BOOKS WITH SAMPLES OF THE OUTLINE FORMATfedjobtraining.com/booksFEDERAL RESUME WRITING SERVICESSee our hourly rates resume-place.com/federal-resume-writing/EXCERPTS OF SAMPLE FEDERAL RESUMESresume-place.com/services/federal-resume-samples/GET HELP WITH YOUR FEDERAL RESUMEGET A FEDERAL RESUME QUOTEThe Federal Resume Guidebook,6th Ed. is the Nu mber 2 best-selling resume book on Amazon and all book sellers today