Federal Job Search Skills you should know

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Federal Job Search Skillsyou should know!

• Background Information and Definitions
• Finding Vacancy Announcements
• Reading Vacancy Announcements
• Writing Federal Success Statements ? P A R S ?
• Researching Federal Success Statements
• Your federal résumé (using RESUMIX)
• Applying, and follow-up actions
• Frequently Asked Questions and Wrap-up

? P A R S ? Part B
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Link your past successes ...
to the employers current needs
If it worked back then
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it will work great now!
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?Click?Youre hired!
Results!
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Try it yourself-you be the Hiring Manager

• If you owned a trucking company
• and were interviewing new truck drivers
• who would you pick from these candidates?
• 1 I type 25 wpm and do exact inventories.
• 2 Ive driven big trucks the past 7 years.
• 3 Ive driven big trucks for 18 months. I have
  a safe driving certificate for 50,000 accident
  free miles, and received a bonus last month for
  10 perfect, on-time deliveries.

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? Results ?

• Single wordssuccessfully professionally
  thoroughly quickly correctly completely
  cheerfully accurately
• Short phrases ( which, )resulted in __
  saved __ bymade money by __ improved __
  byenabled __ by met goals by __exceeded the
  set objective by __received an award for
  __recognized for __

Whats yours?
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Uncle Jons advice Use the skills (verb-noun
sets) from the duty description and
qualifications blocks of the vacancy
announcement, and add your TIME and How Well
RESULTS to the skills!!
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Security Guard Vacancy Announcement (Duties
example)
Protects Federal Property from hazards protects
property
Stands guard at exterior and interior
gates stands guard
Insures that all incoming and outgoing vehicular
traffic is registered with the security
office Insures traffic is registered
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Think of the Vacancy Announcements Duty
Description and Qualifications Blocksas
Interview Questions Are you good at

• protecting property ?
• standing guard ?
• insuring traffic is registered ?

Answer each of their questions that they have
given to you in the announcement! Be relevant,
focused, and aligned to your target employers
problems!
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Security Guard Vacancy Announcement (Duties
example)
Protects Federal Property from hazards protects
property
Job Specific exact exampleProtected Federal
property from hazards successfully for 3 years
while in the U.S. Army.
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Security Guard Vacancy Announcement (Duties
example)
Stands guard at exterior and interior
gates stands guard
Transferable something like itStood guard at
warehouse gates properly and followed all of my
instructions while on guard duty for 10 of my
time during my 3 years of service.
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Security Guard Vacancy Announcement (Duties
example)
Insures that all incoming and outgoing vehicular
traffic is registered with the security
office Insures traffic is registered
Insured that all incoming and outgoing persons
(foot traffic) were registered with the security
office while on guard duty, resulting in me
meeting the established security standards for 3
years.
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Let them see you and hear you in the jobby
writing your examples
Vacancy announcement for a security guard reads
Candidate will guard gates.
For the last 6 years I correctly guarded gates.
For example while in the Army on gate-guard duty
10 of my time I inspected passes and
identification cards, directed traffic, called
for back-up when people tried to get on the base
illegally and directed visitors to the security
office. Passed all of my inspections and met the
standards.
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Results Oriented Success Statements enable
decision makers to make decisions positively
about you

• Expanded PARS
• SHARE (SCARE, SPARE)
• Situation
• Hindrance (challenge, problem)
• Action
• Results
• Evaluation

• PARS
• Problem
• Action
• Results
• Statements

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• Expanded PARS SHARE (SCARE)
• Situation
• Hindrance
• Action
• Results
• Evaluation

My organization operated its own warehouse
It was losing money and supplies and did not know
why or how to stop the losses
I started an inventory and sign out system that
tracked what was on hand and what was taken, the
amounts and by whom
This resulted in our organization being able to
track where supplies went, how much was available
and how much to order
This immediately saved over 600 and decrease
ordering and down time by 10 every month.
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? B L U F ? Bottom Line Up Front
Immediately saved over 600 and decrease ordering
and down time by 10 every month when I started
an inventory and sign out system that tracked
what was on hand and what was taken, the amounts
and by whom, resulting in our organization being
able to track where supplies went, how much was
available and how much to order.
Saved over 600 and decrease ordering and down
time by 10 every month by starting an inventory
and sign out system.
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Read and use the duties and qualifications blocks!
Properly performed technical assignments and
classified clerical and technical positions for
over 2 years. Correctly typed over 40 words per
minute for the past 6 years and my work is ready
to use.
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? P A R S ?Matches and supports theRESUMIX
System!
Statements

• Problem Action Results
• Their Past Tense Noun How ?
  How Well ?Problem Verb (What)
  Much Results!
  () TIME

The RESUMIX Software
The Hiring Manager(s)
The CPOC Staffing Specialist
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A Cautionary Note

• Write about only those skills, positions,
  education, training, awards, etc., that you have
  actually done!
• Please do not s t r e t c h the truth!
• You are writing in the past tense because you
  have actually done the skills, education and
  training
• You automatically send this statement with each
  Army Résumé Builder save

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Write what you have actually done So that they
can read qualify select YOU!
Your Verbs Nouns Times and Accomplishment
Results
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Alignment to the Vacancy Announcement with time,
results and examples Duty Description and
Qualifications Blocks!
The Vacancy Announcement states The incumbent
will review reports before they are submitted.
Candidate 1 I have reviewed reports. Candidate
2 My teams reports were accurate, complete,
in the right format, and submitted on time
because I carefully and thoroughly reviewed
reports 10 of my time over the last 5 years.
Candidate 3 I typed monthly reports in MS Word.
Who did you pick? Why?
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Now you try it!

• Their Past Tense Noun How
  ? How Well ?Problem Verb
  (What) Much Results!
  TIME
  then your examples

Answer Phones
Write reports
BLUF Bottom Line Up Front
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Zipper together your history and relevant
accomplishments
Your HistoryArmy Résumé Builder 3 blocks
Experience(paid and volunteer)12,000
charactersemployers, your titles, time-frames,
locations, hours, pay Education2,000
characters Additional Information6,000
charactersTraining, Licenses, Certifications,
Awards, References, Quotes
Your Marketing Accomplishments (how long how
well examples) in the skills from the
announcements duties and qualifications.
Few Changes
Always consider changing as each announcement is
a slightly different interview
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• Allocate your RESUMIX to Connect the Dots back to
  the Vacancy Announcements
• Duties
• Qualifications
• A
• B
• C
• D

• EXPERIENCE YOUR RELEVANT, ALIGNED, CONNECTED
  ACCOMPLISHMENTS ?PARS?Federal Accomplishments
  time and results
• 1st (current) Job Time Frame From ___ to ___
  Your Title Your Organization
• Accomplishments in A, B, C, D
• 2nd Job Time Frame From ___ to ___ Your
  Title Your Organization
• Accomplishments in A, B, C, D
• 3rd Job Time Frame From ___ to ___ Your
  Title Your Organization
• Accomplishments in A, B, C, D
• 4th Job Time Frame From ___ to ___ Your
  Title Your Organization
• Accomplishments in A, B, C, D
• 5th Job Time Frame From ___ to ___ Your
  Title Your Organization
• Accomplishments in A, B, C, D
• 6th Job Time Frame From ___ to ___ Your
  Title Your Organization
• Accomplishments in A, B, C, D

12,000 Characters
2,000 Characters
6,000 Characters
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A technique for you to consider
1. Highlight (paint) the key parts of the Vacancy
Announcement and copy EDIT and COPY
right-click the mouse and COPY
2. Go to an MS WORD document and paste EDIT and
PASTE right-click the mouse and PASTE

• Spell Check
• TOOLS Word Count
• Multiple examples
• SAVE!

Protects Federal Property from hazards Stands
guard at exterior and interior gates
4. Highlight (paint), COPY and PASTE your fully
constructed statements into the appropriate
blocks in Army Resume Builder
3. Use the pasted sentences to guide you in
constructing your actual Success Statements
Protected Federal Property from hazards for over
4 years successfully. Stood guard at exterior and
interior gates properly for over 3 weeks at a
time for 15 of time during my 4 years in the
Army.
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Missed the target
Can you write about accomplishments beyond the
announcement?
Unrelated value-added skills
RelevantValue-added skills
The stated skills (verb-noun sets) from the
announcement
Beyond the duty description
YES! But be relevant!
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What other chocolate did you want to add to give
it sweetness and color?
M M Peanut Candy
The Peanut
The Peanut The hard core, stated skills
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• The Bulls Eye
• protecting property
• standing guard
• insuring traffic is registered

The Security Guard Vacancy AnnouncementsDuties
and Qualifications blocks
What is an example of value-added, relevant
skills?

• Your accomplishments beyond the duty description
  and qualifications
• accurate reports and duty logs
• using radios and phones
• wearing uniforms and equipment
• safe driving of various vehicles
• inspecting buildings, doors, windows
• first aid and CPR

What other skills are you good at that make you a
wise choice for them?