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Presenters:
< Sennis Eley
Human Resources
Specialist & Wounded
Warrior Coordinator-HRSC
SW
< Manuel Maciel
CHART/Resumix Seputy
Project Manager &
Wounded Warrior
Coordinator-HRSC SW

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To provide tips to applicants

on the concepts and
processes in completing a
federal resume for a career
with a federal agency.


 
   
 




x etting Organized
x Plan
x Read the Job Opportunity
Announcements
x Sraft


< ather information from the following:
 0MET
 Awards & Citations
 Evaluations
 SMART or AKO Transcripts
 SF-50s if you are/were a Federal employee

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< Take time to think before you write:

 What are your career goals?

 Where do you want to work?
 What type of positions will you be applying?

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< Consider the type of announcement you are applying:
 Open Continuous Announcements (OCAs):
{ Write your resume to cover all your knowledge, skills, and
abilities
{ This resume will not focused on one vacancy or position
 Tailor resume for an individual announcement (IA) ±IN:
{ Write resume to a specific announcement or position
{ Be specific about knowledge, skills, and abilities

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< Tips to follow to improve resume

 Walk away and then start writing

 Chopping and revising
 Son¶t forget to spell check
 Son¶t procrastinate

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m. Be descriptive
2. Son¶t be vague

3. Eliminate unnecessary ³flowery´ language

4. Son¶t be repetitive

5. Use plain English

6. Son¶t forget to spell check

7. Keep paragraphs short

8. Son¶t be fancy

 
< The projects you have worked on
< What your specific duties were
< What you needed to know to do the job
< What tools, software, or equipment you used,
< What you accomplished

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³utilized Microsoft Project to develop timelines.

Prepared budget requests, hired staff, selected vendors, negotiated
contracts, and designed and implemented a new Unix client-server
information system.´

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, ³Performed the full range of project management duties

for a new information system.´

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Instead of saying, ³I was responsible for the processing of a wide
variety of extremely complex financial transactions using two
technically advanced automated accounting systems.´
You could say, ³I was responsible for processing a variety of
financial transactions using two automated accounting systems.´

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 Once a skill such as ³management´ or ³budget´ is pointed out,
you need only use the skill again if you are describing a different
position.

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 Sescribe skills and experience is universally accepted terms that
could be understood in both the public and private sectors.
 Minimize the use of acronyms, if you use them spell them out at
least once

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 Correct spelling sets the right tone and helps insure you get
credit for all the job skills and experience contained in your
resume

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 So it is easy to read, add a blank line after every 20 lines or so.
 It is okay to have more than one paragraph for each experience.

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 Son¶t use fancy treatments such as graphics, italics, underline,
shadows, and reverses (white letters on black backgrounds)
 Or signs and symbols such as % # * =
 And don¶t type your information in all capital letters

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 †ist only training and awards received in the last 5 years
 Son¶t attach copies of training certificates, transcripts, or awards
unless requested or stated in the announcement
Sefense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (SAWIA)
 For example, Acquisition †ogistics †evel III Certification, 08-96;
Sefense Cost and Price Analysis, 80 hrs, 08-97
 Son¶t forget to list your qualifying experience, training,
certificates, and memberships.

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Ëfoundation upon which skills are built example:
federal regulations, directives, systems, etc..
 ~ Ëdemonstrated proficiency of task example:
computer skills, technical skills, & hard skills
 
Ëcapacity to perform job function example:
organization, plan, analysis, communication orally & writing,
leader, & soft skills

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 The ³about the job´ section of the vacancy will contain key words
describing the duties of the position.
 Understand the government terminology for these key words,
and how they relate to your civilian equivalent
 Ensure key words from the ³about the job´ section, are
contained in your experience as well as the KSAs.

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(OCA) is identified by
announcement number e.g. SON0203.
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(-IN) are required when it is determined
that a position is not covered by an OCA.
3. 
 (-F†) is a supplemental of an existing OCA and is only
used when there are insufficient number of candidates in the
OCA.
4. 

    (-SE) is an external announcement to
fill that gives veteran preference points.

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< Failure to address the KSA in the body of the resume
< Not providing correct information to support vet preference claims.
(for example, missing date of 0A letter and % of disability)
< Not providing the dates and number of hours per week on each
experience, instead they list summary of time worked
< Not providing complete semester/quarter hours under education
< For positions requiring certifications (Firefighters or Paramedics),
applicants fail to provide certifications on resume
< Applicants fail to read the requirements of the position such as
qualifications, evaluation, and specialized experience

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< Applicants submit resumes that don¶t support the questionnaire
< Applicants will submit several resumes and they are not the same
< Applicants will claim veterans preference, but fail to fill out the
veteran information page
< Resume does not support questionnaire

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< Not being specific enough in describing the tasks that they
performed
< Copying the duties from the position description and not putting it
in their own works
< Not addressing the KSAs when the announcement has them
< Submitting either a too generic resume; a resume that does not
speak to the job they are applying for
< Use of abbreviations or acronyms without spelling it out
< Writing their resumes in bullet form ± write out in detail what you
do, how you do it, and the tools used
< Cheating themselves on experience by not giving clear examples

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< Be accurate on Time-in- rade on specialize experience, for
example, 0m/2009 ± m2/3m/09
< Applicants applying to wage grade positions don¶t always list the
skills they have, the tools they use, and the level of skills.
 †ist if a journeyman
 Have a refrigerant license
 Forklift license
< A mistake is to apply for a position you have very little or no
specialize experience, unless it is a developmental position & no
specialize experience is required.

 
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Honorable Non- Proof of 0ets with 30%
discharge competitive disability disability
Completed 3 Selection up Show Could fall
yrs of active to S-mm certification under 0RA or
service equivalent of job Schedule A
readiness
Or m0% Must serve 60
days as temp
Preference No pref Must meet all
eligibles points qualifying
requirements

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< Soft skills:
 Personal management skills such as attitudes and behaviors that
drive one's potential for growth and team work skills.
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Self-Awareness ability to recognize Self-confidence
your emotions
Self-Regulation Think before acting Openness to change
Motivation Work beyond money Org commitment
or status
Empathy Understand other¶s Cross-cultural
emotions sensitivity
Social skill Managing Building teams
relationships


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å Sennis Eley, Jr (6m9) 6m5-56m7 SSN 245
Email: Sennis.Eleym navy.mil

å Manuel Maciel, (6m9) 6m5-56m9 SSN 245

Email: Manuel.Maciel navy.mil