• Baltimore, MD, June 20, 2007, Kathryn Troutman, Federal Resume Guru and Author presents at 2007 Annual EACE “Hire Learning Conference”

  More than 40 university and college career counselors joined Troutman for her speed class at the EACE conference....READ MORE

• New York City, 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 of America in NYC. ...READ MORE

• New York City, Book Expo of America Photos:

  Kathryn “Ticketed Author” Signs books at Book Expo of America, NYC, Photos by Carole Bernard and Robin Quinn. ...VIEW THE PHOTOS

• Kathryn Troutman, the "Federal Jobs Coach," Helps Managers and Employees Cope with Pay for Performance Changes thru New FedNews Radio Spots

  (Baltimore, Maryland (July 15th) - Pay for Performance is already here for some and on its way for others, and there are smart approaches for handling it. That's the main message of Fed Jobs Expert Kathryn Troutman's new idea-packed series, Pay for Performance Playback, appearing each Friday on Federal News Radio (1050 AM or www.federalnewsradio.com). In the short spots, Troutman shares her insights and tips for coping with Pay for Performance in interviews by FedNews Radio producer Amy Morris. The two-minute interviews appear at 50 minutes into the hour all day on Fridays. ...READ MORE

• Call to Executives - Uncle Sam Needs You! Interactive & Inspiring Lunchtime Workshop Series Preps Candidates on How to Apply for Senior Executive Service Jobs

  (Baltimore, Maryland - October 27, 2004) - With a high percentage of its aging workforce eligible for retirement, the U.S. government's Senior Executive Service (SES) offers exceptional opportunities for those who want to serve their country as high-level employees. But SES job candidates pressured by the demands of their current positions may have little time to pull together the necessary written application pieces. A multi-part lunchtime workshop held on three consecutive Mondays in November can jumpstart the process. ...READ MORE

• Newest Book by Kathryn Troutman, "the Federal Jobs Guru," Helps Students Start Careers

  Baltimore, MD (PR Web) November 03, 2004
  The federal job market is often overlooked by college students and the career professionals who advise them. The Student's Federal Career Guide is an insightful one-stop resource on this marketplace for college students and new grads. Author and veteran speaker Kathryn Troutman is appearing at colleges and universities this fall and winter to share job-market insights, work-search tips and winning strategies from the newly released book. ...READ MORE

• Call to Executives - Uncle Sam Needs You! Interactive & Inspiring Lunchtime Workshop Series Preps Jobseekers on How to Apply for Senior Executive Service Jobs

  Baltimore, Maryland (PRWEB) October 27, With a high percentage of its aging workforce eligible for retirement, the U.S. government's Senior Executive Service (SES) offers exceptional opportunities for those who want to serve their country as high-level employees. A multi-part lunchtime workshop held on three consecutive Mondays in November can jumpstart the process of applying. Held November 8, 15 and 22, the program combines a live and interactive Web seminar with open communication between the instructor and participants via teleconferencing technology. The SES workshop series features well-known federal jobs coach Kathryn Kraemer Troutman as its instructor. This program is co-sponsored by The Resume Place (www.resume-place.com), a top consulting firm on the federal job market, and Federal Daily, a leading news service for government employees. ...READ MORE

• Groundbreaking Certification Program for Professional Federal Job Search Trainers Celebrates 2 Years of Success.

  (BALTIMORE, MD - October 26, 2004) - Federal Job Search Guru Kathryn Troutman’s highly successful and innovative certification program is celebrating two years of teaching trainers and career counselors how to help people find jobs with the U.S. government. Since the program’s inception, it has trained over 250 career professionals in proven federal job-search techniques. ...READ MORE

• New Guide Shows College Students & New Grads the Way to Opportunities with the Federal Government

  (BALTIMORE, MD - September 21, 2004) - Looking out at today's job market, college students and recent grads can feel challenged to find pockets of worthwhile opportunities. A new book, The Student's Federal Career Guide: 10 Steps to Find and Win Top Government Jobs and Internships, identifies and scouts out a massive market -- the federal employment scene, where 300,000+ new hires are added a year. The first book to specifically lead students and emerging professionals through this vast marketplace, the guide manages to be comprehensive, eye-opening, reader-friendly and inspiring. An especially appealing feature is inclusion of thirteen real-life stories of successful, young jobhunters, with careers as varied as international relations, mechanical engineering, and biology. Their experiences give a face to federal jobhunting as their photos and stories introduce sections of the book. ...READ MORE

• Stall in U.S Job Growth Turns Attention to Federal Opportunities

  (BALTIMORE, MD - August 11, 2004) - New Labor Department figures show surprisingly meager job growth for July, reports CNN.com in their article "A Hiring Shock." While economists had predicted the creation of up to 250,000 new jobs in July, the actual growth last month according to payroll figures was only 32,000. CNN reports that this is the second month of slow job growth after promising stats in the months of March through May. ...READ MORE

• Among March's Rituals: A Time for College Grads to Check out Government Internships

  (BALTIMORE, MD - March 12, 2004) - The month of March is known for its time-honored traditions. It's a period when we hopefully can let go of blustery winter weather as we celebrate spring's entrance. March features festive St. Patrick's Day, when magically anyone can celebrate "being Irish." For over 15 years, the entire month has honored women's contributions. But one less recognized aspect of March is that it's a prime time to look into government internships for college graduates. ...READ MORE

• Plenty of Federal Job Openings

  (BALTIMORE, MD - March 1, 2004) - With the unemployment rate holding at over 5% jobseekers need to know that the Federal government is hiring! Choice jobs with career potential are listed online everyday and applications are being submitted. Jobs are available for first-time applicants, as well as current federal employees and returning/retiring military personnel. ...READ MORE

• Kathryn's Predictions and Recommendations for a Successful 2004 Federal Career

  (BALTIMORE, MD - February 27, 2004) - As a Federal Career Trainer, Author and Human Resources consultant, Kathryn has a few ideas and insight for current feds to land on their feet in their federal career 2004! ...READ MORE

• Ten Steps to Getting Hired by Uncle Sam

  (BALTIMORE, MD - February 13, 2004) - In this rough economy, more newcomers are interested in working for Uncle Sam. First-timers, though, can be turned off by the perplexing federal application processes. Fortunately following my simple ten step approach can keep you on track. You'll discover both similarities and differences here compared to your job-search experiences in the private sector. ...READ MORE

• Federal Jobhunting is Like a Sport, You Have to Play to Win (And Learn the Game)

  (BALTIMORE, MD - January 23, 2004) - Tiger Woods, Billie Jean King, Steve Garvey, Michelle Kwan - these famous sports superstars all achieved levels of peak athletic performance through practice and repetition. Likewise, federal jobseekers who want to make all the right moves can benefit from looking at jobhunting as “sport” and applying for positions as “practice.” This perspective will give you the edge in the federal employment game for the new year....READ MORE

• Monster.com's New "Voice" Helps Federal Job Applicants So They Don't Have to Struggle Alone

  (Baltimore, MD - November 21, 2003) - In spite of recent signs of an economic thaw, the meagerness of job listings in Sunday papers suggests that many people seeking employment will be out in the cold for a while longer. This could be a good time to warm up to the idea of working for the nation’s largest employer—the Federal government. Over the next few years, the government must fill about 250,000 positions in the U.S. and throughout the world. But applying for a Federal job can seem like feeling your way in the dark for a secret passage through a huge, impenetrable wall....READ MORE

• Employment Centers’ New Program Helps Jobseekers Prevail Despite Weak Economy

  (Baltimore, MD - November 1, 2003) - Helping jobseekers succeed in a weak economy can feel like an uphill climb to the military’s outplacement specialists. Yet the U.S. government, with thousands of job openings, is one market still open to job hunters. The barrier to these federal jobs is often the difficult and convoluted application process. “It’s very cumbersome at best, even for the professionals,” observed Ed Roscoe, Director of the Spouse Employment Assistance Program (SEAP) which is available at 68 U.S. Navy Fleet and Family Service Centers worldwide. To help their SEAP professionals meet today’s challenges, the Navy recently acquired Kathryn Troutman’s Ten Steps to a Federal Job™ Recruitment, Training and Career Development Program. “The ‘Ten Steps’ program has been a blessing,” noted Roscoe....READ MORE

• Troutman’s All New Federal Resume Guidebook, 3rd Edition, Is Both Timely & Comprehensive

  (Baltimore, MD - October 17, 2003) - With her first Federal Resume Guidebook in 1995, government career expert Kathryn Kraemer Troutman broke new ground. In that initial edition, Troutman introduced her original and effective federal resume format, responding to V.P. Al Gore’s move to approve resumes for government job applications. And by 1999, when her second edition was published, many agencies had embraced Troutman’s federal resume style, though this market was still transitioning from the cumbersome 171 form. Now her 100% rewritten third edition (430 pp., 8-1/2 x 11, ISBN 1-56370-925-2, $21.95, JIST Publishers) enters a government job market in which her approach to the federal resume has become the golden standard....READ MORE

• Navy SEAP and TAMP Counselors and Air Force Family Support Center Counselors are Training Veterans and Spouses How to Apply For and Land Quality Federal Jobs with New, Successful "Ten Steps" Approach!

  (Baltimore, MD - August 10, 2003) - Air Force Family Support Center Relocation Managers and Navy Spouse Employment Managers traveled from all over the United States to Columbia, Maryland to learn a new, first-ever, structured Federal job search training program that is being implemented at every Navy and Coast Guard base and many Air Force bases in the world...READ MORE

• Announcing Class No. 4, Certified Federal Job Search Trainers (FJST)

  All U.S. Coast Guard Transition Managers are trained in New Approach to Federal Job Search Training for Veterans and Spouses - "Ten Steps to a Federal Job"

  (Baltimore, MD - July 18, 2003) - In Biloxi, Mississippi, U. S. Coast Guard Transition Managers learned a new technique of helping military retirees, Separatees and their spouses find and apply for Federal jobs. Approximately 70 percent of the Veterans would be interested in federal jobs because of the popular Veteran's Preference points received for hiring, and the repeal of the double income law. Previously veterans would loose their military retirement if they worked for the government. Now a retiring veteran after 20 years service can begin a new career and a new retirement by beginning a federal career...READ MORE

• Where the Jobs Are: A Look at Two Bright Spots in a Mostly Gloomy Employment Environment

  (BALTIMORE, MD - June 17, 2003) - Last week’s announcement by the Labor Department of a rise in the unemployment rate (to 6.1%) isn’t a sign that would surprise many jobseekers, says work search consultant Kathy Troutman. She’s noticed that discouragement is running high among those looking for employment in what is being termed a "jobless recovery." (While the GNP reflects a growth in the economy of about 2% over the past nine months, more than 2.5 million jobs in the United States have been cut since March 2001.) Troutman believes that this is a time when jobhunters must carefully research where the open positions are...READ MORE

• 2 Awards Turn the Spotlight on Book That Can Lead Struggling College Grads & Others to Jobs

  (Baltimore -- June 13, 2003) - The much-needed employment guide Ten Steps to a Federal Job picked up two of the major small press awards this week, the Best Career title in the Benjamin Franklin Awards and the Bronze prize in the Career category in the ForeWord Magazine Awards. These awards could open eyes to what is often a hidden job market, the Federal employment scene. Author Kathy Troutman says many people are not aware that the U.S. Government is our nation's largest employer. This insight is especially pertinent to recent college grads in America, who are struggling to begin their careers in a down economy...READ MORE

• Announcing Class No. 3, Certified Federal Job Search Trainers (FJST)

  (Baltimore, MD - May 27, 2003) - Transition Managers, DOL One-Stop Counselors, Navy Spouse Employment Assistance Program Managers, U.S. Air Force Transition Assistance Managers, University Career Centers, Workforce Non-Profits - all want to learn the Federal job process in order to help customers!...READ MORE

• Federal Resume Writer and Job Coach Credential Boosts Credibility and Adds Clients

  (Baltimore, MD, April 23, 2003)-With the current increased interest in homeland security positions and other jobs with the U.S. government, career professionals need to be able to respond in an informed way to jobseekers trying to navigate the complex Federal employment system. To support this effort, Kathryn Kramer Troutman has devised a new telecourse for resume writers, job coaches, and others who offer services to the Federal job applicant. From the offices of her Baltimore consulting firm, Troutman discussed the new Federal Resume Writer and Coach Certification Program (FRWC) telecourse, which she will present for the first time in six teleclasses from June 25 - July 30th, 2003...READ MORE

• 12 Key Questions to Ask When Choosing a Federal Job Application Service

  Capitalizing on the government's increased need for qualified workers in the wake of 9/11, a new crop of resume writers and entrepreneurs has begun marketing themselves as Federal job search specialists. However, being able to properly prepare the Federal application package requires a steep learning curve that only a handful of well-trained human resource professionals have scaled successfully. Federal employment trailblazer Kathryn Kraemer Troutman advises jobseekers to become savvy consumers when looking for Federal job application services...READ MORE

• Navy Spouse & Outplacement Employment Specialists on Board for Unique U.S. Federal Job Search Training

  

  
  

  They traveled from such foreign countries as Japan, Italy, Puerto Rico and Spain as well as from Navy bases scattered across America for the special three-day training. Their goal? To learn the latest and savviest strategies for landing Federal jobs from Kathryn Kraemer Troutman, "the Federal Job Search Guru." In total, 15 representatives from the Navy's employment assistance programs became certified as Federal Job Search trainers through Troutman's unique curriculum. Now they will be sharing this knowledge with people separating or retiring from the Navy as well as spouses of military personnel who wish to seek positions with the Federal government...READ MORE

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