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Government Expansion
The federal sector is growing at its fastest pace in decades. Over the past
two years total federal civil service employment has increased 10%, an
additional 182,629 workers. Jobs are available nationwide and overseas and
additional growth is projected due to recent legislation.
The new health care legislation calls for the formation of 150 new regulatory
agencies and commissions and many more federal regulators are needed to manage
failed banks and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds.
The federal government now owns 60% of General Motors, all of Fanny Mae and
Freddie Mac plus they took over 100% of the student loan program recently! There
are many more jobs projected and those who start the process early will have a
better chance of success.
Federal Government Jobs and
Careers
Government Jobs / Federal Jobs / Civil
Service Jobs / Post
Office Jobs
Thousands of federal government jobs are advertised on any given day.
With 50 percent of the federal work force eligible for either
early or regular retirement, and additional hiring for new health
care and banking regulatory jobs, there are abundant opportunities. Jobs are available nationwide and
overseas.
This site provides links to
government jobs by occupation,
agency, and we include related state and
local government, and private sector jobs to provide the largest
selection of job opportunities available for your area.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) maintains the
largest federal jobs data base. Many of their vacancies are included in
our consolidated job listings.
The more contacts you make, the greater your chances. Don’t get lost in the
process. Too many job seekers pin all their hopes on one effort. They find an
open announcement, send in an application, then forget about the process until
they receive a reply. Federal jobs are highly competitive and the more jobs you
apply for the better your chances.
Content, proper spelling, and grammar counts when submitting
your online application and/or federal style résumé. In most cases you will
complete your application using an online resume builder. The standard private sector résumé is not sufficient to apply for a federal job,
it’s too brief and lacks the detail necessary to be properly rated. You can
write your resume/application independently with the
proper resources and knowledge or you can use a professional
Federal Resume Writing Service.
I participated in many selection panels during my 35 years of
government service and was a certified rating official for the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA). I also coordinated and/or conducted hundreds of job
interviews for our organization. The first impression that a rating official has
of a new applicant is reflected by his or her application package. I can tell
you that thousands of applications that I reviewed during my career were poorly
done and didn't make it through the initial review. Today, most applications are
completed online and you can spell and grammar check your work before copying
and pasting your work experiences into the online resume builders. Content is
the key and you must tailor your application to the job announcement. If you
don't take time to compose a professional application you won't be rated high enough to be
considered for an interview.
Don’t make this mistake — take the time to draft a coherent, clear,
error free, and concise federal style résumé as outlined in our
FEDERAL RESUME GUIDE that is included in Chapter Six of
The Book of U.S. Government Jobs. With today’s word processors and spell
check functions there isn’t any reason to send in an application with misspelled
words, and the word processor grammar check functions are also very helpful. If
you don’t have the inclination or time to do it right, hire
a service to assist you with your federal style résumé. Notice that I say,
assist you with your federal style résumé; it takes a lot of time and work for
both the résumé service and client to complete a federal style résumé that will
get results. So even if you hire a service to complete yours, understand that
you will have to provide considerable input and devote time to reviewing drafts
to get it right. Only those in rate "Best Qualified"
will be referred for interviews
and eventually selected for a job.
Federal government job seekers can link direct to thousands of
job vacancies by occupation or
through our Department & agency listings and list of
141
agency web sites. You can also call OPM’s USAJOBS hotline, 24
hours a day seven days a week, for updated job information at 1-703-724-1850 or
visit their web site at http://www.usajobs.gov.
OPM's USAJOBS web site does not list all federal job openings.
Additional avenues are available to locate government job
announcements including; OPM and agency sponsored job hot lines, internet web
sites, computer generated data bases, employment services, directories, and
periodicals that publish job listings. These resources are listed in Chapter
Three of
The Book of U.S. Government Jobs under Common Job Sources. Specific hiring
programs are discussed following the job resource listings such as; student hiring, and engineering conversion paths.
The Book of U.S. Government Jobs describes the entire federal employment
process and includes a FEDERAL RESUME GUIDE, easy to use checklists with sample applications and over
1,000 references. This title is on Library Journal's "Best Sellers List" and one
of the most checked out books at libraries, nationwide.
Recommended by Library
Journal.
Individual agency personnel offices should also be contacted to obtain job
announcements. A listing is included in Appendix C of The Book of U.S.
Government Jobs and a
partial list is
included on this page. A
consolidated listing of Washington, D.C. Federal Personnel Departments is
provided following the Common Job Sources section in this book as well. If an
agency has direct hire or case examining authority, and most do today, they may
advertise jobs independently from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Also, search related private sector jobs on our
expanded jobs board to locate ALL jobs in your area.
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Agencies recruit through government
web sites including OPM's
USAJOBS. Many eliminated their direct general employment support lines. However,
the majority of job announcements provide contact information including the
staffing specialist's names, phone number and email address on the announcement
if you have specific questions about advertised jobs. You can contact these
staffing specialists to ask general questions about employment in their agency.
You can also call the main Washington DC number that is listed in the agency
directory in The Book of U.S. Government Jobs
and ask to speak with their recruiting office.
