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The Senior Executive Service
Executive Core Qualifications and Executive Federal Resume Writing and
Consulting Services
Applying for a position in the Senior Executive Service represents the
culmination of your career. For that reason, nothing could be more
important than getting it right.
What is the Senior Executive Service?
If you’ve made it this far, you probably have a good
understanding of the SES. The Senior Executive Service consists of the
top non-appointed positions in the federal government. Each year, such
positions number less than 10,000. Members of the SES must be certified
by a committee of his or her peers, a Quality Review Board (QRB),
convened by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and made up of at
least three SES members from different agencies.
The evaluation is based on each applicant’s experience and
ability to meet a standardized set of Executive Core Qualifications
(ECQ’s): Leading Change, Leading People, Results Driven,
Business Acumen and Building Coalitions/Communications.
ECQ’s were created by the Office of Personnel Management to
address the need in government for highly qualified leaders and to
ensure that supervisors are not just subject-matter experts, but also,
trained in managerial best practices.
To get started:
begin with an SES ECQ Project Assessment
(Click here)
Who We Are
The Resume Place, Inc. is the leading expert in Federal employment,
with a thirty-year history in the Washington, D.C. area. Kathryn
Troutman, the founder and President, is a nationally-recognized
authority, with numerous books on the subject of Federal employment and
long-standing relationships inside the offices of government hiring.
Every SES application prepared by the Resume Place is a reflection of
Kathryn’s cumulative knowledge, passed down to writers
through the highly-successful Certified Federal Job Search Training
(CFJST) program. Writers with the Resume Place are also accomplished
professionals in their own fields, which include law, public policy,
human resources, career counseling, journalism and the military.
The Resume Place, Inc. is committed to ensuring each applicant who
comes to us is fully qualified for the SES and we work closely with our
clients to realistically evaluate their experience. We believe this is
in line with our ethical responsibility to our clients, the Federal
government and the American people.
How We Work With You
The Resume Place has developed a signature writing process for SES
applicants, which focuses on highlighting the major accomplishments of
your career, whether it has been in the non-profit, public or private
sector. We begin by asking you to submit a recent resume and a list of
your Top Ten Career Accomplishments.
We then conduct research into the organizations in which you have
previously worked and the agency/office to which you are applying. We
understand agencies hire people, not resumes; and the goal of our
writing process is to create a document that represents who you are, as
a manager. Conducting research is an integral part of our process
because it provides insight into the customers you serve, the values
you embody, and the major projects and missions of your target agency.
From your list of accomplishments, our writers determine which examples
best match each ECQ: Leading Change, Leading People, Results Driven,
Business Acumen and Building Coalitions/Communication. If we are unable
to address a competency, we work with you to uncover new examples from
your career.
After assigning each example to an ECQ, we send you a written
interview-style draft, in which you write two to three sentences
addressing each question. For example, “Who assigned this
task to you?”, “What was your first
step?”, “With whom did you work?” and
“Why hadn’t this happened before?” In
this way, your writing forms the basis of your ECQ’s and
reflects your communication style, as well as your priorities and
values.
Many of our clients tell us that the drafting process is very
rewarding. We do the work of outlining the document and mapping your
ECQ’s, while you have the opportunity to reflect on your
accomplishments in a simple, step-by-step manner. Applicants often
discover that an accomplishment performed in their daily duties was
actually far more difficult than they initially believed and come to
see their managerial history in a new light.
After receiving your answers, we edit and rewrite each document to
ensure it is grammatically correct and meets the technical requirements
of OPM. We also edit for flow, personality and
“hot” keywords or phrases.
Begin with a Project Assessment:
Order a $150 Project Assessment with Kathryn Troutman to begin your SES project
(Click here)
Why Hire an Expert?
Our writers are not only skilled wordsmiths, but also, guides through
the application process. Here are some of the questions we regularly
answer for our clients:
Am I qualified?
Do you think I’ll like this job?
Who reads my ECQ’s?
What happens after I submit my application?
Is this example relevant?
Is this example too… old? personal? specific?
politically-charged?
Can I write about an accomplishment I performed in private industry/an
unrelated job/a group?
Can I use an example about a program or agency which lost its funding?
Can I use the same example twice? three times? four times?
How do I develop an example for something I don’t think
I’ve ever done?
Applicants who come to us for help are often excellent writers, but
face difficulties in figuring out how to distill very complex
accomplishments into simple, two-page essays and how to portray those
accomplishments in a way that fully represents their managerial
ability. Difficult examples include highly technical/scientific
accomplishments or shared accomplishments, wherein it becomes difficult
to identify your role.
Some of our customers are simply facing a case of writer’s
block—they may have a rough draft of their ECQ’s
and just can’t manage to get any further. The Resume Place is
very sensitive to high-pressure deadlines and, with your support, we
can create a winning package within a week.
Our writers understand the unique and underlying challenges you face,
as a federal manager. We are familiar with nuanced scenarios, such as
the political and financial pressures that may come from rescissions,
reorganizations and audits.
One client, who recently worked with us, wanted to use an
accomplishment from the field of defense. She had created a
cutting-edge program to evaluate contractor effectiveness by requiring
contractors to respond to time-managed deadlines via internet-based
communication. Our writer, with knowledge of the relationship between
government and contractors posed the question, “Did you face
any resistance when implementing this change?”
As it turned out, the client responded that the contractors loved the
change and found that it improved their own performance and
quality-assurance practice. Only through working with our writer was
the client able to see how she had transformed a potential challenge
into a major accomplishment.
Insight, personal support and technical knowledge define our service to
you. Our service is an opportunity to create a document you can use for
the entirety of your career, one that gets to the heart of your
strengths, motivations and passion to succeed.
The Resume Place, Inc. has an excellent track-record, and though they
may not want to admit it, we might have already written your
competition’s application.
Now, you can get started with a Project Assessment with Kathryn
Troutman, a very useful $150 fee for 30 minute discussion about your
SES project and how we can help you with your writing.
(Click here)
Questions:
Please email your questions to Kathryn Troutman:
kathryn@resume-place.com
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