How to Get a Great Government Job: And keep it

Hunting for a federal job--made easy Forget the sequester and all the budget cuts in Washington. The Federal Government needs thousands of employees. If you have a good contact somewhere in the government who can grease the skids for you, this book is not for you. This is for the 99 percent who must slog through the usual steps of searching, applying, and interviewing. Don’t worry if you don’t have a college degree. There are many federal jobs that want to know only “the nature of your specialized experience.” That is, your work experience, not your academic credentials. The requirements of each job opening will spell out exactly what experience they’re looking for. This is a great time — the teen years of the 21st Century — to be applying for a job in the federal government. Why? Because the government is top-heavy with that population bubble known as the baby-boom generation. These are men and women now in their 60s, born in the aftermath of World War II, who are heading into retirement if they’re not already there. Many thousands of them have jobs in the federal government, and there you are, ready to take the place of just one of them. So there’s a job with your name on it. What are you waiting for?