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| Volume Number 4 - Issue Number 3 - April 11, 2006 |
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Please feel free to print or forward this newsletter to your friends, co-workers and customers. This newsletter is designed to help you succeed in your job search with all of the insight gained from years of writing outstanding, successful resumes, teaching resume writing to thousands of jobseekers, writing on the monster.com Public Service Board and writing books on federal job search. Thanks for reading, Kathryn Troutman, President, www.resume-place.com Sign up, or change your email registration for the free newsletter here: http://www.resume-place.com/newsletter/signup.html March newsletter on Federal Resume Builders: http://www.resume-place.com/newsletter/vol_4_issue_2.html NEWSLETTER CONTENTS
FEATURE ARTICLE BY KATHRYN TROUTMAN Continuity of Operations (COOP) Emergency Career Plan - Kathryn K. Troutman, Federal Career Coach Note: This week, my daughter Lauren told that her friend Andrea and all her co-workers, were called into the office and told that their entire retail distribution company was closing. And their jobs were over that day at 5 pm. They got 2 weeks pay and that was the end. I hear from people searching for job security EVERYDAY and read in the news about people whose jobs have ended due to organization change and restructure. It’s time to take this seriously and create a Plan of Action for Survival. Are you ready to be riffed, bracced, outsourced, competed, dumped, or replaced? It can happen tomorrow. That’s just the way today’s job market is – private, state, non-profit, foundation, small business, government* and corporate. The lifetime job with one organization simply does not exist anymore. The good news is that if it happens to you, you can survive … and thrive. In fact, you could get an even better job with more money, a new supervisor, and better challenges. How? By being prepared and having an emergency career plan. Imagine your job ending today at 5:00 pm – you have been let go. Picture yourself being ushered out of the building with your personal belongings. What would you do? Just like the plans you have in place for a pandemic flu outbreak, hurricane, tornado, or other homeland security emergency, you need to create a career emergency preparedness plan, or Continuity of Operations (COOP) Emergency Career Plan. Here is what a successful COOP Emergency Career Plan looks like:
*Government Commercial Activities Outsourcing, Reorganization, Base Realignment & Closure (BRAC) are possible job change or ending activities for civil service employees. The government provides excellent job search services, job placement preference programs and assignments. Most likely if you lost your job in government due to any restructure, you would find another position. WHAT’S NEW IN FEDERAL RESUME
BUILDERS: Notice: Resumix resume writers … “Submissions of work experience in your ASP resume must not contain either of the following: (1) a copy of the duty statement from the Job Opportunity Announcement (JOA) or (2) a list of words used to solicit skill matches without describing work experience. You must describe your personal work experience in your own words. Submissions that contain either skill lists, duty statement copies, or experience that is not verifiable as performed by the applicant will be grounds for application rejection and possible disciplinary action. “ Certified Federal Resume Writer Interpretation: Yes, include the words in the announcement, but don’t list them verbatim. The skills summary should not only be a list of words, but defendable examples of true experience. TSA’S PAY BANDING
EQUIVALANCY CHART TO GS GRADES TSA’s “SV” grading system is not really a pay banding system. Rather, it is a system of discrete grades with pay ranges that differ from GS pay ranges. These discrete grades, which are identified by letters rather than numbers, have minimum and maximum rates that may be higher or lower than the closest GS grade equivalent. There do not appear to be steps in the SV system, so pay may be set at any rate between the minimum and maximum. In the table below we show rough equivalencies between SV and GS grades; we determined these by reviewing both pay ranges for the two systems, as well as qualifications requirements TSA published in vacancy announcements for various jobs in the SV system. (Relating TSA’s “SV” Grades to GS Grades)
ASSOCIATION OF JOB SEARCH TRAINER’S (AJST) CONFERENCE REVIEW Kathryn Troutman was elected Member-at-Large for AJST, www.ajst.org, and presented three popular courses at the Palm Springs, CA conference in March:
The focus of AJST is on Job Search Training – improving our training and advisement techniques for jobseekers – for private sector job and Federal job searches! If you’d like more information about this conference and AJST, please feel free to write to Kathryn at Kathryn@resume-place.com. FEDERAL RESUME AND JOB SEARCH WORKSHOPS • FREE Federal Job Search Teleclass With Kathryn Troutman Join a small group of Federal jobseekers and career professionals to learn what's new in Federal hiring. Kathryn will share the Top Tips in Federal Resume Writing and review the Resume Builder phenomenon - every agency has a different application system. You will gain Federal HR hiring insight and discover how to maximize your referrals and selections. Read more here. • Three-Part Federal Job Search Web Seminar: Next Series Begins in May I. Federal Resume Writing Essentials Maximize your potential with the best possible paper and e-fedres™ format for mail-in and electronic (i.e. Resumix, QuickHire...) applications! II. Techniques for Writing Results-Oriented KSAs Maximize your rating with CCAR - capitalize on stories and examples, including challenges and RESULTS! III. Fundamentals for a Successful Federal Job Interview Using core competencies and job-based skills, learn techniques to master a Behavior-Based Federal Job Interview! Sign up today: click here. • Federal Job Search Career Certification Training Help your customers land Federal jobs with a 2.5-day training program with Kathryn Troutman in Columbia, MD. 2006 Course Dates: - April 12, 13, 14 (there’s still time – and space – to register for the April dates!) - June 21, 22, 23 - September 20, 21, 22 - November 15, 16, 17 Get more information here. • Federal Resume Writing Workshop Open to Veterans (free), Kathryn Troutman, Speaker April 20 and May 28th, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC More information: Write to kathryn@resume-place.com FEDERAL RESUME, KSA, AND SES PROJECT
ASSESSMENTS The start-up of a Federal resume writing project is critical to the success of the entire Federal job search campaign. Federal Resume and KSA Assessments At the Resume Place, we have recently raised our Project Assessment fee from $45 to $75 due to the increased complexity of the Federal hiring process and the time it takes for the initial analysis of the resume, announcements, and overall job campaign. Our newly expanded Assessment Service includes review of your resume draft and one or two announcements, as well as a plan of action to write the best resume possible for your objectives. We will outline what is required for you to develop the most efficient, effective, and successful Federal resume package for written applications or online submissions to the various online builders and agency systems. We will even talk to you by phone if you need additional information. The GOVERNMENT HAS MADE THE APPLICATION PROCESS QUITE COMPLEX and we are here to help you understand it and apply correctly every time! Federal Resume, Resumix, and KSA Assessments begin here. SES Package Assessments The SES Project Assessments have become quite popular at The Resume Place, Inc. Writing the 5 Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) - required for SES applications - can be a real challenge, and our SES writers are ready to analyze, write, edit, and develop the best ECQs for our clients. Our Project Assessments are handled by Kathryn Troutman, who talks by phone about the project, the objectives, and the steps needed to write the entire 20+ page package. Our SES Assessments are $125 and include a written review of the Plan of Action – designed to achieve results. SES Assessments begin here. HOT FEDERAL JOBS April 6, 2005 Job Openings on WWW.USAJOBS.GOV: 22,200 PLUS 298 SES positions ! Office of Management & Budget - www.omb.gov A great SES Career Development Program (closes 4/24) and a GS 7/9 are available (Master’s level only) http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/recruitment/index_current.html UPCOMING JOB FAIRS FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL Job Fairs are great for jobseekers! MOAA - http://www.moaa.org/serv/serv_career/serv_career_fair_2006_info/index.htm May 2, 2006, Washington, DC Corporate Gray Security Clearance Conference - http://209.147.66.65/cgo/jobfairs.htm June 2, 2006, Greenbelt, MD Job Zone Job Fairs – 2006 Schedule – 7 job fairs, MD and VA, Janet Giles, Producer http://www.jobzoneonline.com/Job%20Fair%20Schedule.htm PAX River, April 18, sponsored by US Navy Fleet & Family Support Center MILITARY TO FEDERAL CAREER GUIDE: Need help getting your resume and job fair and search strategy together? Consider the Military to Federal Career Guide – great Networking Chapter, sample of a Job Fair resume and federal job search tips. Order the book here: THIS IS A FREE NEWSLETTER! Feel free to forward this newsletter to your colleagues and customers. Sign up for the newsletter here. GETTING OFF THE MAILING LIST? Each newsletter is sent with an opt-out link. The Federal Career Corner Newsletter is published by: The Resume Place, Inc., 89 Mellor Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21228 (410) 744 4324 Managing Editor: Jessica Coffey; jessica@resume-place.com Publisher: Kathryn Troutman; Kathryn@resume-place.com © 2006, K. Troutman, All Rights Reserved |
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