| If you're applying for a position as a senior executive | | | | For example, a good profile statement might read, |
| with the federal government, you need a top-notch | | | | "Master of Business Administration with substantial |
| SES federal resume in order to be interviewed for a | | | | operations management experience. Demonstrated |
| senior executive position. | | | | capability for supplying the highest level of corporate |
| When the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) of 1978 | | | | services while significantly reducing costs. Fully |
| was written, the people who framed it envisioned | | | | conversant with all facets of purchasing, security, |
| the Senior Executive Service (SES) as a corps of | | | | managing staff, planning facilities and cost accounting. |
| senior executives with solid executive expertise that | | | | Trilingual English, Spanish and Italian. Reduced |
| valued public service and had a broad perspective of | | | | overhead by 25% by instituting new competitive |
| government. They intended the SES to be a body of | | | | bidding procedure that improved quality of service." |
| executives, not a group of technical experts. The | | | | The achievement part of an SES federal resume |
| point is that successful candidates for SES jobs | | | | should list your accomplishments in a brief, |
| should function well as executives--and executives | | | | easy-to-understand format that avoids generalizations |
| are paid to oversee technical experts, not to | | | | and uses numbers to describe the results of your |
| compete with them. | | | | actions. |
| Leaving aside for the moment the Executive Core | | | | For example:o Designed and wrote new guidelines, |
| Qualifications (ECQs) that define the competencies | | | | policies, flow charts and employee handbooks that |
| required for entry to the Senior Executive Service | | | | increased productivity and saved $40,000 annuallyo |
| and are used by many departments and agencies in | | | | Received award for improving employee |
| selection, performance management, and leadership | | | | performance by 25%o Coordinated continuing |
| development for management and executive | | | | education conference that improved management's |
| positions, let's focus on the two most important | | | | ability interact positively with workerso Reduced the |
| parts of a federal SES resume: | | | | number of grievances filed by workers by 60% by |
| Your profile (also called a career summary) and your | | | | obtaining their input for and involving them in |
| achievements. | | | | management decisions |
| A profile or career summary is a short statement | | | | Whatever your SES career objective, what matters |
| that highlights your abilities in a manner that makes it | | | | most is concise, perfectly crafted SES federal |
| easy for anyone reading it to speedily pick up on | | | | resume copy that meets the criteria of the post for |
| them. Because a single job posting may easily draw | | | | which you are applying in a fashion superior to those |
| thousands of applicants, your profile has to stand out | | | | of your competitors for the job. |
| from the herd to get noticed. Your profile should be | | | | This level of resume writing is best left to |
| a short professional biography in no more than 10 | | | | professional resume specialists who can take your |
| lines. | | | | information and package in a winning way. |