Nicole Schultheis, JD

Nicole Schultheis is a licensed attorney (Maryland) and Certified Federal Job Search Trainer and Career Coach. She serves as a Program Director of The Resume Place’s SES 2-Page Resume and ECQ Interview Training, helping individual SES candidates address OPM’s new Executive Core Qualifications and prepare their 2-page SES resumes, used by the hiring agency’s Executive Review Board and then forwarded for review as part of OPM’s new Qualifications Review Board interview process. Nicole uses her trial advocacy skills to help candidates prepare and deliver compelling answers to interview questions, sharing their leadership accomplishments orally in the required Challenge-Context-Actions-Results format. Since 2010, she has helped nearly 1,000 aspiring senior executives attain OPM certification, enabling them to take on senior leadership roles across the executive branch. Most recently, she has co-authored, with Kathryn Troutman, the all-new SES training materials and curriculum used by The Resume Place in its 1- and 2-day online SES preparation courses. She is also co-author of the ALJ Writing Guide, and her articles have been published in The Maryland Daily Record, Maryland Bar Journal, Maryland Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, and other professional and lay publications.