Electronic Federal Resume Guidebook
Electronic Federal Resume Guidebook
and Europe to teach Resumix Resume Writing to military personnel and civilians who are seeking promotions and career change.
The use of electronic resumes by the federal government creates an entirely new set of rules for tackling this step of the job search process. Fortunately help is just a few clicks away! With her insightful new guidebook on e-resumes, leading federal career consultant Kathryn Troutman has drawn a road map for your success in this new territory.
Through a look at the Resumix e-recruitment system,Troutman has created a primer on a resume writing style that will be effective with any electronic human resources system and e-resume builder. In addition to resume-writing tips, the author also provides relevant background and job-search strategies.
Inside this cutting-edge guide, you’ll find:
-The history behind the development of the computerized recruitment systems, including Resumix.
Helpful insights into how automated human resource systems work.
-Guidance for assessing your work history and determining the skills you want to emphasize.
Instruction for searching the Web for relevant openings.
-Tips for incorporating “keywords” highlighting your skills into an e-resume so that hiring officials can find them easily electronically.
-A detailed system for crafting an outstanding electronic resume.
-Specific instructions for applying for DOD civilian jobs within the different military branches.
-Motivation for getting over your fears of self-promotion.
For over 27 years, Troutman has trained workers like you to apply for federal jobs. Constantly keeping current on the latest trends in hiring, she’s the perfect person for you to turn to now for help in creating your electronic resume. If that’s the challenge before you, don’t sweat it! This book has the answers you’ll need !
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars An Excellent Resource
As a former federal personnelist and now a professional job searcher and writer/editor of electronic resumes and KSAs, I can tell you that this book is an excellent resource. I believe that soon all federal vacancies will be filled via the online application process (rather than the traditional paper application process), which makes this a very timely book for the federal job seeker. There are numerous sample plaintext resumes, KSAs, skills sets, and templates in the book and on the accompanying CD-ROM. Also provided are numerous relevant “buzzwords,” “keywords,” and “noun phrases” essential to ensuring that applicants will get “hits” in an agency’s searchable resume database. With all the samples and templates provided, your RESUMIX resume is practically already written for you. All the reader has to do is fill in information relevant to their own experience.
5 Stars Worth the money (do the math, it’s easy) …
Bought the book. Landed a GS-9 job.
How’s that for a book review?
The math: The book is on the expensive side, but you have to think of the cover price as an investment. Put another way: now I’m making more money than I made when I was on active military duty (I’m a retired grunt; retired Sgt. First Class pay plus GS-9 pay equals more than active duty Sgt. First Class pay).
Federal Resumix Guidebook how-to in short: It teaches you how to organize your past employment experiences into a consolidated nonstandard resume that contains the actual words GS managers may be using to search for employees.
The book causes you to think of the Resumix system as a search engine looking for you. Does that make sense? 
5 Stars Electronic Federal Resume Guidebook
Book offers resume-writing tips for Defense civilians
By Kellie Lunney
Federal employees and those aspiring to work in the government need to master the art of electronic resume writing, according to a new book from a federal resume expert.
Kathy Kraemer Troutman’s Electronic Federal Resume Guidebook provides readers seeking civilian jobs in the Defense Department with advice on navigating Resumix, the department’s electronic database for managing resumes.
The Defense Department uses Resumix software to manage resumes and search for qualified candidates. The transition from a paper-based system to an electronic system means that Defense employees and potential applicants have had to brush up on their computer and resume writing skills, according to Troutman. Under the electronic resume system, applicants submit their resumes for specific positions, and hiring officials search the resume database to find an applicant with the right mix of qualifications.
“I believe the electronic system is here to stay and that it will be better in the long run. If you can write a good resume and understand the application process, you can master this,” writes Troutman.
Troutman, a former columnist on careers for GovExec.com, includes advice on writing and editing resumes, a brief history of the Resumix system, and a soup- to-nuts description of how automated human resources systems work. A CD-ROM that contains electronic resume samples and official job kits accompanies the book.
Special tips (”One resume is the best for today’s electronic job search”) and inside information (”Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force agencies require self-nominations for announcements”) are sprinkled throughout the book, and Troutman provides a review summarizing the section’s main ideas at the end of each chapter.
Most of the book is devoted to crafting the perfect electronic resume with tips ranging from how to incorporate keywords that will yield successful job matches through Resumix to avoiding bureaucratic jargon.
A list of dos and don’ts in the electronic resume process includes:
*Do research keywords, skills and industry language.
*Do limit experience to recent jobs and jobs that directly support your qualifications
*Do keep acronyms to a minimum.
*Do write with nouns and verbs in the active voice.
*Don’t submit extra documentation unless requested. *Don’t use phrases like “responsible for,” or “worked with.” *Don’t fax your resume.
*Don’t repeat yourself.
The Electronic Federal Resume Guidebook is Troutman’s second book. The Federal Resume Guidebook was published in 1995.
4 Stars The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
This was a great book to use with eighth graders! A classic piece of literature was a great way to end the year!
5 Stars What a great book!
I received this book and think it’s great! Thanks loads!!
Congratulations on a product that’s certain to help a lot of government employees succeed where otherwise they might not. Having served on numerous selection panels in the past, I often wondered why so many employees “missed the boat” on putting together a “sellable” application. Now, that shouldn’t happen anymore. R, Don
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