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Writing Your Federal Résumé
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Job Opportunity Announcement
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Overview
GS – 0511 – 07/09
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Overview
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Duties
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Qualifications and Evaluations
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Qualifications and Evaluations
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Qualifications and Evaluations
“Students may apply if they are within 9 months of graduating from the date of application.”
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Qualifications and Evaluations
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Benefits and Other Information
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How to Apply
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How to Apply
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How to Apply
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Your Résumé
• Your résumé:
– Your best marketing tool
– Communicates your qualifications
– Shows you can provide immediate results
– Should be tailored for each job
– Has no page limitations
– Is your first and often only impression
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Format
• Reverse chronological order:
– Lists your most recent experience first then work backwards listing previous jobs
– Include job-relevant paid/unpaid experience
– Recommended for Federal résumés
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• Amount of experience:
– “Managed an 8 person team over 15 years…”
• Level of experience:
– “Routinely advised and briefed organizational senior executives on…”
• Repetition is OK
Experience
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• Who was impacted?
• How significant was the impact?
• What were the cost savings?
• Did you exceed deadlines?
• Did you receive awards or recognition?
• What changed/improved?
Accomplishments
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Language Matters
• Before: Responsible for planning, executing and coordinating special operations mountain and desert training. Served as primary instructor for all new Soldiers in training.
• After: Developed and executed numerous sensitive and realistic training courses for nearly 1,500 personnel annually. Rated as the number one instructor over 20 peers on last 3 annual performance reports.
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• Job Opportunity Announcement (JOA) sources:
– Duties
– Qualifications and Evaluations
– Occupational Questionnaire
• Linked from the JOA
Information
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• Personal sources:
— Former job descriptions
— Supervisory reviews and feedback
— Transcripts
— Course feedback
— Military honors
— Awards and recognition
— Customer acknowledgements
— Survey results
Information
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• Think outside the box
— Leadership roles in social organizations
— Volunteer experiences
— Projects
— Professional/Academic challenges or successes
— Special assignments
— Travel experiences
Information
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• Create
– A list of your skills and match them to job types (Skills Profiler)
– http://www.careerinfonet.org/Skills/
Skills
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System Skills
□ Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
□ Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
□ Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Resource Management Skills
□ Management of Financial Resources - Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
□ Management of Material Resources - Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
Skills Profiler
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• Veterans
– Translate military career fields to Federal occupations
– http://www.dllr.state.md.us/mil2fedjobs/
Translate
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MIL2FEDJOBS
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MIL2FEDJOBS
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• 3 steps:
– Review
• Understand the requirements
• Select in or select out
– Identify
• Find keywords and phrases
• Highlight
– Align
• Place information into bullets
• Match personal experiences/accomplishments
Process
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Grade Level or Equivalent
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Review
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Identify
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Align
Annually verified over 500 source reports and identified weak internal controls and accounting procedures. Annually verified over 500 source reports and identified weak internal controls and accounting procedures. Created a new standard operating procedure which resulted in a 10% decrease in errors and $52,000 in labor savings.
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Questionnaire
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• Highlight your knowledge, skills, abilities and experience as it relates to the job.
• Use keywords/phrases or short sentences
• Paint a picture
• Include your security clearance, if applicable
• Complete only after you have listed all of your experience and accomplishments
Résumé Summary
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USAJOBS
• Allows users 5 resumes
– Upload
– Build
– Combination
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• Special hiring authorities:
— Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA)
— Veterans 30% or more disabled
— Disabled veterans who completed VA training
— Schedule A for people with disabilities
— Military Spouse
— Certain former overseas employees
• Sensitive information and photographs
USAJOBS
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Education
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Cover Letter
• Highlights experience
• Allows compelling language
• Optional
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• Write in plain language
• Show specialized experience
• Avoid acronyms
• Use spelling and grammar checks
• Have someone review
• Apply early as some JOAs limit the number of applications accepted
Additional Tips
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Summary
• Review the entire JOA
—Understand the requirements
—Assess your skills
—Select in/Select out
• Pay close attention to the instructions
• Separate important information
• Tailor your résumé
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Questions
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