Contact: Kathryn Troutman or
Sarah Blazucki
(410) 744-4324

NEWS RELEASE NOV 13, 2002
For the First Time Ever, Career Professionals
Can Be Trained and Certified in Federal
Job-Search Techniques

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Baltimore, MD--

"Every day I receive phone calls from people who say, "I’m considering Federal employment…, but I don’t know where to start."
Kathryn Troutman in her newly released book, Ten Steps to a Federal Job

For the First Time Ever, Career Professionals Can Be Trained and Certified in Federal Job-Search Techniques

With job-seekers searching for work in a discouraging slow economy and the employed in the private sector feeling increasingly insecure, work with the Federal government–our nation’s largest employer–could be just the answer they’re looking for. The good news is that the Federal government is hiring all across the U.S.! Yet most job-seekers–even those already in government–don’t know the latest techniques and strategies that are most likely to land them that new Federal job. And as employment trainer Kathryn Kraemer Troutman, who has been dubbed "the Federal Job Search Guru," was surprised to discover, even the career counselors often don’t have the knowledge of how these job-seekers should proceed.

"There’s a tremendous need for trainers of Federal job-seekers nationwide and even in Europe," Troutman pointed out. "So many people don’t know how to apply for a Federal job. And if the career professionals don’t understand the Federal job search process, they can hardly help these clients succeed."

To fill the gap, Troutman has decided to share the highly successful process she has presented to thousands of students in Federal job-search training classes since 1995. For the first time, career professionals can study her methods and get certified to train both Federal job-seekers and other career trainers. "In this way, my program can be taken more extensively across the U.S. than I can personally do alone," Troutman said.

There are three days of comprehensive training required for certification, and this must be followed up with some specified writing–including a Federal resume–and two pro bono training sessions with job-seekers. Certification is being administered by Troutman’s partner, the Maryland Institute for Employment and Training Professionals (MIETP).

Here’s just a sampling of the wide breadth of course topics packed into the three-day training:

• Troutman’s effective "Ten Step" Federal work search process
• The writing of paper and electronic Federal resumes
• Tips for marketing the training
• Guidance on teaching to inspire job-seekers

As an added bonus to the training, copies of three of Troutman’s popular books, Ten Steps to a Federal Job, the Electronic Federal Resume Guidebook, and the Federal Resume Guidebook, 2nd edition, are included with the course materials. The first two books have sample resumes and tips on CD Rom; the third title supplies these on PC disk.

Those unfamiliar with the federal work search process may want to first sign up for Troutman’s one-hour $50 teleclass, "Introduction to Federal Resume Writing for Career Professionals. "The short phone course is a great way to start," said Troutman. "If you want to learn more, then you can sign up for the three-day program."

Note that by registering, participants of the certification program agree to buy their training materials from Troutman’s The Resume Place, and to conduct any training for career professionals through MIETP. Graduates are free to conduct their own independent training of job-seekers. Job-hunters interested in such training include professionals transitioning from private industry to Federal employment, current Federal employees looking for promotions, employees facing downsizing within their companies, veterans leaving the service, unemployed in economically depressed regions of the country, recent high school and college graduates, and more. As just one example, according to Gordon J. Burke, Jr., the Chief Operating Officer of the Veteran's Administration, a goal has been set to hire 100,000 veterans with disabilities within the Federal government by fiscal year 2005.

In addition to the training, Troutman has created course materials that career professionals can purchase and use in their own classes. Certification is not required to be eligible to buy them. A 120-page student’s manual, The Federal Job-Seeker Guide, sells for $14.95, and the trainer’s manual and Power Point presentation are sold together for $55.95. Large volume discounts are available.

Though the three-day training sessions for certification will all be given in Maryland initially, Troutman plans to eventually make this program available nationwide. She reasons that while job-seekers may not know it yet, there are Federal jobs available all across America; an average of 30,000 Federal positions are open at any one time. And an anticipated large scale retirement of the greying Federal work force is also on the horizon.

"This program needs to go out," observed Troutman. "This way, we can help more Federal job applicants be successful, and the government can hire all the people that they need."

To check for the dates of the upcoming teleclasses and certification trainings, as well as to obtain additional information such as pricing, visit the "Training" pages of www.resume-place.com or call Sarah Blazucki at (410) 744-4324 in Maryland.