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I’m a federal employee with HR and hiring management friends.

Know this:

• Use one-page resumes as the skeleton of a narrative resume

• Narrative resumes are telling the story of your best day (or week) on your job (not a bed-time story!)

• Computers don’t scan your resume – people do

• Use the same vocabulary as the job announcement

• Applying for jobs you can’t do is stupid

• Read the job announcement three times or don’t apply

• HR is on to you. Stop plagiarizing job descriptions off the net

• Stating the obvious:

  • Your education should be in the resume

  • Awards should be listed in the awards section

  • Attach everything asked for in the announcement

• KSA’s are still required and always will be

• Finding your niche is easy

• Pay-scale numbers are the key to instant promotions

• It’s your fault if you don’t ask HR for feedback

• 50 cent words aren’t impressive; neither are 20-page resumes

• Only you can decide what grade you are – if you’ve never had a federal job

• Narrative resumes aren’t chronological – no one will notice if you’ve been unemployed

Here is the forum to ask others what’s working for them.

Here is the one-line help when you have questions with 30 minutes to submit your application.

Bottom line: resume writers can’t help you murder a narrative resume without some serious money up-front and no one cares.

I care. I see people struggle with this process and it kills me. I can help. If you read this blog, you’ll find the help you need.