Product Description

This guide shows you what you must know and do to get a good federal job-with health insurance, retirement benefits, and a stable future. Inside this book, find how to translate your work experience and education into federal employment. Discover where to aim with the 10 hottest federal fields. Effectively present specialized experience, as needed. Expand your short private industry resume into a typical 4-page USAJOBS federal resume. Determine and use the right words that federal hiring authorities look for. Break the code on difficult KSAs and challenging self-assessment questionnaires

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6752 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780964702592
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Even experienced job seekers who've been through several rounds of Searching in the private sector are puzzled by the federal experience. A new book by Kathryn Troutman masterfully addresses that issue: "Ten Steps to a Federal Job: How to Land a Job in the Obama Administration, 2nd Edition"(resume-place.com). It's a marvel in clearly explaining the myriad of federal customs, conventions and requirements. "Keywords are extremely important," Troutman says. "Seasoned workers attempting the transition to public employment often are shut out because they fail to show how their experience translates from one sector to meeting the requirements of the other." --Joyce Lain Kennedy, Careers Now, Syndicated Columnist, Tribune Newspapers

About the Author
Kathryn Troutman is the nation's leading expert in federal job search and career training. Troutman designed the federal resume currently being used as an official job application document. A businesswoman and government trainer, she created the Troutman Method, a uniquely specific technique to match and effectively present a federal job seeker's qualifications with a position's requirements. As an author, Troutman has produced nine acclaimed federal career books credited with helping many thousands of federal job seekers- at all levels- land federal positions and move up.

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for federal job applications
Learn about the federal application process, start to finish. Kathryn Troutman is the foremost expert on federal hiring and her methods work consistently for job seekers.

With really important information about how the hiring actually works, this book tells you just how to prepare your resume and KSA narratives/questions to rate well and get hired. Plus the book has numerous samples from real life people who have had success with the Troutman Method and includes before and after illustrations of each.

Federal HR reviewers respond well to the outline format resume shown in the book. As someone who works regularly with federal jobseekers, I hear consistently that the methodology taught in this book have helped them understand the process and successfully prepare and submit applications. With so many new federal jobs coming on line under Obama, this book is a must have resource!

Other great features of the book include information and character counts for USAJOBS and the other online builders and application systems, help in answering self-assessment questions, sample KSAs and lots, lots more.

The bible of Federal job-hunting
Landing a Federal job is tricky and time-consuming, but well worth the effort in this economy. The process of applying is so different than the private sector process that one would be lost without a guide like this. Written by the acknowledged leader in the field, it's the perfect guide for the first-time Federal job seeker. I've used it myself, and it works.

Ten Steps is an EXCELLENT How to Book
I would strongly recommend "Ten Steps to a Federal Job" by author Kathryn Troutman. The techniques she explains to include: keyword analysis of vacancy announcements, outline format of Government resume, and method for constructing KSA's was extremely valuable. I also found the CD (which is included with the book) a huge help in providing a template by which to craft my professional experience and transferable skills. I would also like to share that taking her one day workshop will give you a big advantage as she shares tips and advice that are extremely helpful, and not available anywhere else either online or print.