Do you need to update your federal résumé? If so, what do you need to do? Find out when Kathryn Troutman, president of The Resume Place, joins host Mike Caus...
While there isn’t much individuals can do about their on-the-job fate, there is something anyone can do that’s easy, can be done quickly and it is oh-so-simple. And necessary. To be done before you lose or take a job or decide to jump ship: Update your federal résumé.
Enter federal résumé guru Kathryn Troutman. She’s author of the Federal Resume Guidebook and she says nobody should wait until things get better, or worse, to fine tune their federal résumé. Troutman is a long-time coach who has walked thousands of feds through the pesky-to-necessary minefield of the résumé. She says that “no matter what happens with agency reshaping or budget cutbacks, it’s a dog-eat-dog federal job world out there. Beat the crowd and get your TARGETED federal résumé out there!!”
So what’s a targeted résumé and how do you “get it out there?” Listen to today’s Your Turn radio show at 10 a.m. EDT right here on Federal News Radio. We’ll be talking with Kathryn Troutman, the designer of the FIRST Federal Resume in 1996 — and president of The Resume Place, Inc. and creator of Ten Steps to a Federal Job(r) Curriculum. Kathryn will give you top tips for your federal résumé and career strategies for the unknown world of a smaller government. She’s a career federal coach who knows how to give résumé-shy feds the confidence to keep their career moving ahead and she’ll talk about strategic thinking which may land you a promotion this year.
If you have question for Kathryn, send them to Mike before showtime at mcausey@federalnewsradio.com. You can listen at Federal News Radio or in the D.C. metro area on 1500 AM. The show will be archived on the Your Turn webpage, so you can listen later if that works for you.
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