Let’s face it: getting a government job is a daunting process – especially on the federal level. You have to navigate a specific jobs system, understand government jargon, tweak your resume to include important keywords and wait for what feels like forever to find out the status of your application. We know this is yourRead… Read more »
Quick! Read the series of letters and numbers shown below. Don’t waste any time. Can you read them? (The images are on the left side of the page below the first image) Hopefully you found that to be pretty easy. (And, if I were better with HTML I would have figured out how to putRead… Read more »
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Sitting in your chair looking at job ads? Search agents out on your favorite sites? Think that is job search? Well, actually, no. I regularly hear job seekers complain about not finding good jobs online or never hearing back from all the resumes they have submitted to job ads. Blasting out your resume to everyRead… Read more »
Hopefully it doesn’t happen too often, but most of us over time will face circumstances where we just have to make the best of things and find the silver lining in something. Whether it’s a job or a contract you don’t win, there are so many times where you have an opportunity to either takeRead… Read more »
It was Christmas Day and Suzie’s Mother arose early to start the holiday meal. Suzy heard Mom in the kitchen and ran down to join her. As Suzy watched, Mom took a large ham from the refrigerator, unwrapped it, then placed it on a cutting board. She then took a knife and cut a thickRead… Read more »
I wanted to share this recent post by my colleague Mark Nadel at the Government Affairs Institute who shares an interesting point about government leadership in difficult situations: “when individual desire is about to trump the common good, the decision maker must tie his hands behind his back to avoid disastrous results.” There are aRead… Read more »
Originally posted at The Government Affairs Institute Both chambers remain on course to pass a largely uncontroversial extension of the expiring continuing resolution (CR) that will be comprised of an omnibus and probably five out of the 12 individual appropriations bills. It will set FY13 discretionary spending at $984b, equal to the sequester level, butRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Facebook gets a new newsfeed. That’s great for the average user, but how will the new newsfeed impact government’s social media outreach. Click here for the full recap. But up front: Sequestration’s Furloughs Start Furlough notices went out for some feds this week: The Labor Department has sent furlough notices toRead… Read more »
A current graduate student just told me that he and his friends have a question that keeps emerging. Here’s the scenario he presented – to which you might relate: I receive a lot of random requests to connect on LinkedIn. I know that it actually recommends people to you who are in your potential sphereRead… Read more »