I've written before about all of the federal employment opportunities available, and now it seems the economy has created a mad rush to take advantage of them. I've noticed it from my own experience of sitting on a selection board for seven vacant positions in my agency. The board had to sift through 40 resumes from people looking for work. The striking aspect of this is in past years we probably would have been hard pressed to receive enough qualified resumes to fill all seven positions.
I've also previously written about the "perfect storm" creating opportunities in the federal government. But with the unemployment rising steeply, the competition for these opportunities is really heating up. Here is an article in the Star-Ledger in New Jersey discussing this competition.
Another aspect of the competition is coming from new college graduates entering the job market. In the perfect storm link above I talk about how the federal government will probably expand job opportunities with the democrats coming into power. The recent election has also instilled a spirit of public service in college age people who now rate government employment as a top career.
Even with all of the competition, if you look for federal jobs you truly are qualified for, write a good tailored resume highlighting those qualification you will have a leg up on everyone else. While reading the resumes for the selection board I sat on, I would guess only about 10 of the 40 resumes were specific to the job announcement - the rest were very general. The people selected were out of the 10.
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