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FEDERAL EMPLOYEE
RETIREMENT PLANNING SITE
Hosted by
http://federaljobs.net
 
Site Overview:
Most
federal employees attend agency sponsored retirement seminars several
years prior to retiring. I attended a retirement seminar in 2002 and I
came back from the briefing with more questions than answers. I was
confused about many things – mostly things that were not covered at the
seminar. I was interested in knowing just what I would have to live on in
retirement – from all income sources, what my wife will have to live on
when I die and most importantly, I was uncertain whether or not I was
financially able to retire and I knew nothing about living trusts or
probate avoidance techniques.
This
site will help you determine what you will have to live on in retirement, what your
spouse will have to live on after you die, benefit options, and
provide survivors with an easy-to-follow checklist to help them through
difficult times, and direct you to other resources to finalize your plans.
This site should get you seriously thinking about your personal situation. You should also
consult an attorney if you have complicated personal or financial
situations, a disabled child that will need care after you die, or if your
estate will be subject to estate taxes.
Originally, this site was hosted on our
Government Jobs Career Center.
Federal Jobs Net was created to help federal government job hunters
find, apply for, and land government jobs. It was expanded to
assist federal employees seeking upward mobility, career
progression, and retirement planning assistance. Federal Jobs
Net also includes
comprehensive Postal employment information,
information about overseas jobs,
law enforcement opportunities, and
detailed information on
Veteran's
benefits, handicapped employment
options, and special emphasis hiring programs.
The original career site was Launched in 1994 by Dennis V. Damp, a career federal employee,
and President of Bookhaven Press LLC. The retirement site was
launched in early 2004 before Damp retired from federal
service in December of that year. He spent 35+ years in government and understands
the federal retirement and employment system from the inside out.
Damp is also the author of the highly acclaimed book,
The
Book of U.S. Government Jobs, that was nominated twice for
"Best
Career Title," by the Benjamin Franklin Awards committee.
Damp founded Bookhaven Press LLC in 1985 to publish
informative and helpful career, business, and finance books.
Bookhaven Press developed companion web sites, including Federal
Jobs Net, in the early 1990s for many of their books and these
sites receive more than 2 million hits monthly. The companion
sites are:
Government Jobs Career Center
Post
Office Jobs Career Center
Health Care Jobs and Medical
Jobs Career Center
Federal Employee Career Development Center
Bookhaven Press LLC
Contact Information:
Mailing address:
Bookhaven Press LLC
P.O. Box 1243
Moon Township, PA 15108
Shipping Address: (UPS/FEDEX, etc.)
Bookhaven Press LLC
249 Field Club circle
McKees Rocks, PA 15136
Phone: 412-494-6926
Fax: 412-494-5749
Email: Bookhaven@aol.com
President & Senior Publisher: Dennis V. Damp
Associate
Publisher: Victor Richards
Office Manager: Mary McGraw
Publicist: Kate Bandos of KSB Promotions, 616-676-0758
Distributor: Midpoint Trade Books, 212-727-0190 (Eric Kampman)
Toll Free Direct Sales Number: 1-800-782-7424.
This number is for direct retail sales only and answers
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Do not call this number to
talk with our staff. The operators can't transfer your
calls.
On-line shopping cart:
http://www.bookmasters.com/marktplc/1orderbookhaven.htm
Purchase orders are accepted from wholesalers,
libraries, and certified resellers. Fax, mail or email your POs.
Quick & Easy Federal Jobs Kit
Author Introduction:
I retired from federal civil service in late 2004 at the age
of 55 with 35 years and 7 months service and I can attest first hand to how
rewarding civil service employment can be – and was in my case.
My service began in 1968 when I was drafted during Vietnam.
Before I was called up I joined the Air Force and spent over
three years on active duty. I researched government job
opportunities while in the military, applied for, and was hired
by the Department of Defense (DOD) after leaving the Air Force.
I spent three years with the DOD maintaining aircraft avionics
systems. While on rotation in Frankfort Germany, in the early
70s, I ran into Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
technicians that were stationed at the airport. When I returned
home I contacted the local FAA office to investigate employment
options. It took me over two years to find an opening and get
hired for an electronics technician position at a remote
facility in central Pennsylvania. I spent the remainder of my
government career in various positions with the FAA. The last 20
years of my career included numerous supervisory and management
positions where I was responsible for recruiting and rating job
applicants for our organization.
I based this site on my 35+ years of government service
and it provides an insider’s first hand view of what is needed to
effectively plan a successful retirement. This
comprehensive federal employees' retirement planning site is based
on the research I had to do to prepare for my personal federal
government retirement.
Dennis V. Damp
Site Accessibility:
The accessibility movement encourages web sites
to be built to allow people with disabilities to view them. For
example, one accessibility standard is that all images have "alternate
text" and "long descriptions" coded into the HTML. This would be
useful for software that reads web pages out loud for blind people.
Even if you cannot see our images, the software can read the description
of the image out loud.
There are two different guidelines often used when
determining whether a site is "accessible": the US Government Section
508 Guidelines and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This site was built with a template that meets
as many of those standards as possible. It meets all the
Priority 1 standards of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
and all of the Section 508 Guidelines. There are several
exceptions such as rotating ad banner scripts that can't be
tagged.
Utilized standardization:
- Table structure
- Tables are built using relative sizing so that the page
will resize to fit browser windows.
- All tables have a "summary" statement that describes
what the table is being used for.
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Table background colors/patterns and bullet images are
defined using Cascading Style Sheets within the theme (instead
of hard-coding them, which FrontPage will do when themes
are applied without CSS).
- Font colors and sizes are also defined with CSS, which
allows the page to degrade functionally even if someone
does not have CSS viewing capability.
- Images
- Images within the page layout have "alt" set in the
HTML.
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