Transitioning from Federal
Your federal career is an asset. We translate the relevant experience, your knowledge of policies and procedures, your writing and communications, and the accomplishments that met the mission. Our Certified Federal Resume Writers translate your federal experience into private sector skills and abilities.
Translating your federal resume to private industry
We are experts at translating your federal career experience to private industry. We carefully analyze the target company, contractor, or municipal agency to match your past relevant experience.
From series to skills
We turn series, grade, and federal scope into the competencies and outcomes a private recruiter screens for.
From duties to results
Budgets, teams, programs, and impact, framed as quantified accomplishments instead of position descriptions.
From announcement to ATS
The same keyword rigor that clears a federal panel, aimed at the private-sector ATS and the hiring manager.
How the writing works
You stay the author. We do the targeting.
We are experts at condensing, targeting, and packaging your career into the short two or three page format. We do not rewrite your resume from a generic template; generic does not get interviews.
Briefing review
Your certified writer reviews your current resume and your new objectives, job titles, industry, and specialized knowledge, and sets the writing format and emphasis plan.
Keywords from a real announcement
The writer analyzes one target recruitment ad, builds seven to ten keyword phrases from it, and makes sure the resume covers them.
Accomplishment coaching
You write your Challenge, Context, Action, Results stories in your own words, starting with our free CCAR Accomplishment Builder. We trim each one to 40 to 50 sharp words. You will need these stories for the interviews too.
What changes
What changes in the translation
The record stays; the frame changes. Four things a private recruiter reads differently.
Two pages, not five
The federal resume is now two pages, and your current resume might be five or more. We edit to the two-page private industry format. We are experts at condensing and targeting resume content.
Seconds for the initial review, not minutes
Recruiters spend 6 to 7 seconds scanning a resume. Accomplishment statements are the difference.
Both markets, one strategy
The federal and private combined consultation covers both resumes, with two keyword sets and a career transition strategy.
Our work, not a side line
Federal resumes are the hardest resumes in existence. A federal-to-private translation is what we do.
It starts with one hour
The one-hour consultation, $210 or $260 for executives, covers your current resume and target position, a discussion of what should change, and a mark-up of the resume. It also includes a quote for any additional writing, so you can decide with the number in front of you.
The private industry consultation, $210 or $260 for executives
The consultation
The $210, or $260 for executives, one-hour consultation covers your current resume and a review of the target position. We discuss what should change in the resume, and you get a mark-up of the resume with those changes. It ends with a quote for any additional writing to help you compete in this market.
- A marked-up resume with specific recommendations.
- Target keywords for your industry.
- Turnaround 1 to 3 business days.
- If you want writing after the consult, professional writing runs $210 per hour, quoted before it begins. The writing is always optional.
The record
The record behind the service
Resume Place has been writing resumes since 1971, for the federal market and the private one.
The private industry services
Three ways we write for the private market, each on its own page.
Private industry resumes
The full service: executive resumes, career changes, and the federal-to-private translation.
Learn more 02Executive resumes
VP, director, and chief roles: the thesis stated, proven with numbers, aimed at the recruiter and the board.
Learn more 03Career changers
Changing industries is not starting over. We re-frame the record around the transferable core.
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Make the move
Start with the $210 one-hour consultation on your new resume.