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June 6, 2007

Kathryn Troutman’s Military to Federal Career Guide
Is Recognized in the Foreword Awards
Troutman Also Signs the 4th Edition of her Best-Selling Federal Resume Guidebook
and Mingles with Other Authors at Book Expo America in NYC






Memorial Day Weekend, 2007 (New York City) – Amidst a show with attendance estimated at 30,000, the Ninth Annual Foreword Awards were held on the main floor of the book industry’s annual tradeshow Book Expo America (BEA) on Friday afternoon. While temperatures were sweltering outside on the city streets, spirits were high inside the Javits Convention Center on June 1st as the book titles were honored. Kathryn Troutman’s Military to Federal Career Guide was amongst those designated as finalists in Foreword’s Career and Reference categories. This attractive Guide also had received an Honorable Mention for Career titles the previous night during the Publishers Marketing Association’s Ben Franklin Awards at the Park Central Hotel further uptown.

See Kathryn's BEA Photo Archive here.

“Being honored at these events is a publisher’s best reward for all the work of planning the content, writing it, and then designing the layout and the cover,” notes Troutman, “This makes my job as author and publisher very worthwhile.”

The Military to Federal Career Guide is the seventh book Troutman has authored and published. Her daughter Emily Troutman was the developmental editor on the project. Emily and Kathryn Troutman are the co-authors of The Students Federal Career Guide, which won the Best Career Book prize in the Ben Franklins in 2004 and a Bronze in the Career section of the Foreword Awards that year. In 2003, Troutman’s Ten Steps to a Federal Job took the Best Career Book title at the Ben Franklins and a Bronze in that category in the Foreword Awards.

“Another good thing about being recognized through awards is that it brings attention to important titles,” remarks Troutman. “The application for government jobs is complex. The Military to Federal Career Guide can help veterans apply for federal positions, which use similar skill sets to many jobs in the military.”

Back in 1995 when the federal government transitioned from the dense SF 171 forms to resumes for their job applicants, it was Kathryn Troutman who designed the federal resume format. With her Military to Federal Career Guide, she now has designed a new user-friendly “outline format” -- offering a clear resume writing process that can be especially helpful for veterans who may have never written a federal resume. This outline format has been very well received by the transition counselors at the military bases. Troutman’s Guide also explains how to match military experience to specific federal jobs – something not easy to do without guidance. Between the book and the accompanying CD-ROM, 12 sample resumes show veterans how to focus resumes toward federal positions while avoiding military jargon.

“I made the resume writing process as simple and realistic as possible, so readers won’t get discouraged,” Troutman said. “These ‘outline format’ resumes work well with the electronic submissions the feds expect today.”






On Sunday, June 3rd at Book Expo America, Kathryn Troutman had a book signing for her latest title – the 4th edition of The Federal Resume Guidebook. A crowd of librarians, booksellers, job applicants and family members and friends of job applicants lined up at 10:30 AM to receive the Guide, and soon Troutman was personalizing copies with her signature in the official author-signing area at BEA. The publication of the 4th edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the federal resume format that Troutman created. This Guidebook is a best-seller and a classic title which is part of many library collections. While originally released by Troutman’s federal jobs specialty press, the Guidebook is now published by JIST -- a leading publisher of a broad range of job search titles.
    
During the trade show and affiliate events, Troutman mingled with many other authors, including Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Katy Piotrowski (The Career Coward’s Guide to Interviewing), and Thomas H. Ackerman (Federal Law Enforcement Careers).
    
Next year, all three events -- Book Expo America, the Foreword Awards, and the Ben Franklin Awards -- will be held in Los Angeles.

The Military to Federal Career Guide (book with CD-ROM) and the 4th edition of The Federal Resume Guidebook (book with CD-ROM) can both be purchased through the Resume Place website at www.resume-place.com as well as on Amazon.

About the Author:  Kathryn Troutman is the leading federal jobs trainer at the Department of Defense and many Federal agencies across the US and in Europe. She has helped federal jobseekers land positions with the US government for more than three decades. The Resume Place Press is the publishing division of the Resume Place, Troutman’s resume-writing and job-search coaching business located in Baltimore, Maryland.

For more info, visit www.resume-place.com.

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