Resume, Cover Letter - Introduction Letter Examples

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others are too lengthy with "repetitive" duties or accomplishments in positions they've worked.

There's a reason for that.

Resumes used to be something you built once, because you were with one company forever, an exception being academics and people in the legal field that needed to continually demonstrate their body of accumulated work.

Now, resumes are an entire field to themselves. I've made money making these things for people; I don't judge myself on the money I've made, but their success rate (whether or not the resume got them 'looked at').

There are multiple resume styles, and you should 'tune' your resume for the specific place / position you are applying. One generic resume is 1990's tech.

If you do a basic chronological, and turn that in on USAJOBS, you'll never ever be rated. There are very specific ways to word and structure a federal resume, because the BirdDog ATS is the only thing that will even evaluate you at the first step, and if you don't hit those key metrics, you may be overqualified in real life, but the Dog will bury you.

That's why you may see resumes with jobs that all read the same. They are bulking up a KSA that is in the listing requirements. Say they want someone at a Federal park to handle money. You need to show some depth in it, so you dig in each of your previous jobs and find something related to money handling, and staying as close as possible to the job requirement's wording, you word yours that way.

Lot of gaming involved, I haven't done much of it this year, and even being Best Qualified won't push you into Referred status.

Close by saying that a business card gets a few seconds consideration; it's designed to pique them enough to request a resume. A resume gets about fifteen seconds consideration; it is (should be) designed to get them to want to actually talk to you. A cover letter / LoI has its' place; when you are submitting a package, they just want an executive overview - they ain't going through all that right then.

A resume that answers all their questions doesn't make them want you to come in. Make your resume want to know more about you, not like a drivers' license. In my opinion, anyway