The Certified Federal Resume Writers and Coaches at The Resume Place, Inc. will begin with a consultation and working session to evaluate your current resume and a target announcement. We'll develop a project plan of action and identify ways to write the federal resume so that your referral and interview rate is increased!

Initial Service 1: One hour Project Assessment and Discussion of your Federal Resume and Federal Job Search. Includes review of your files and situation and discussion with project assessment and estimate for professional development.  SOMETIMES, we will apply the assessment fee to the writing service of the project (depends on how long it takes to identify the problem with the federal resume). Use this service to either analyze the problems with your federal resume, or to have an expert review of a federal resume you have drafted.

Fee: $115 – targeting up to GS 11 positions
Fee: $150 – targeting GS 12 and up positions

Initial Service 2:  Two hour Career Change Strategy and Executive Consultation for career change, executive job searches, SES packages, and technical federal job searches. This more extensive consult is required for more complex cases, job search material and strategies to target skills from one industry and job to federal or other field. Includes career change strategies, project assessment, estimate for future project development. (Review of materials; Discussion plus report)

Fee: $300 – Career Change Strategy (all grade levels)

IMPORTANT: Click here to see a list of Federal Pay Scales by Location in order to determine your desired salary/pay grade.

Our valuable initial consultation services include:

A review of your job announcement first:

• We carefully analzye specialized qualifications, duties, examples, KSAs and essays to ensure you can qualify and discuss ways to cover these qualifications CLEARLY in your federal resume.

Federal Resume Discussion - We introduce our popular “Outline Format” for USAJOBS, as published in The Federal Resume Guidebook: 

• A discussion of the new STAND OUT format we developed called the “outline format”, already very popular with federal HR.  This format hits keywords clearly in an outline style that makes your resume easy for federal human resources specialists and supervisors to read and analyze.

Need more help? For professional writing and editing of your project, we will give you an estimate for the completion of your writing project:

• We can write the resume for you, based on our discussion. The hourly rates for writing are $125 to $175 per hour, depending on your grade level. Review hourly rates here.
  We are efficient, fast and will target a grade level and occupational series.

Get started: register for your Federal Resume Assessment.
Submit your documents into our Assessment Guide. We will contact you very shortly to set up your telephone or in-person consultation with a Federal Resume expert.

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Step 2. After our Consultation, we can take over the writing of the project and give you a targeted federal resume to submit to USAJOBS, CPOL, DONHR and other resume builders.

This consultation and professional service is an investment in pursuing a high-quality federal career. We can help you!

Our Track record:

• We are the leading and oldest federal resume writing firm in the world. Established in 1973, author and publisher of the first book in federal resume writing, the Federal Resume Guidebook, now in it's 4th publication and more than 100,000 copies sold.
• We have written more than 10,000 SF0-171 and Federal resumes since 1984
• We have hard to find insider knowledge of Federal HR hiring challenges and objectives based on the Federal resume training by the directors inside more than 40 agencies per year
• Our professional team of writers have been trained in federal human resources recruitment and staffing processes.
• Excellent customer service, reputation, referrals, and selections for interviews and job offers!

"I thought the services you and your colleagues provided were first rate. As a senior professional, not familiar with federal terms and specialized language, your services were excellent. They provided timely support and useful assistance that made what seemed an impossible task possible. Your staff also translated more than twenty years of professional experience into language meeting the federal job seeking criteria. This was very useful, and encouraging. It was done in a professional and courteous manner, under a tight time deadline. For me the whole experience was positive, despite not landing the position initially sought."
                                                                                  -Thomas