Your private industry resume has to match the job posting.
Recruiters scan for the keywords in the posting and the accomplishments that prove you can do the work. The private industry resume runs shorter than the federal one, usually two pages, so every line has to earn the recruiter call.
How we help
Four ways the federal discipline pays off in the private market.
Transitioning from federal
Your Federal career IS relevant for your 2-page private-industry resume. We will feature transferable skills, knowledge, and areas of expertise. We will add impressive accomplishments with metrics that the Recruiter can understand for their target position.
Executive resumes
Senior executive resumes – from Federal to Private Industry – feature leadership, accomplishments, change, and metrics to prove success. These facts can result in a recruiter call.
Career changers
Federal to Private Industry Career Change CAN HAPPEN with careful targeting of the resume; translating skills, and featuring the most relevant skills on Page One of the resume.
ATS and recruiter, both
The same keyword discipline that clears a federal panel, aimed at the private-sector screen and the person behind it.
How the writing works
Your career goal is our writing / targeting goal.
We are experts at condensing, targeting, and packaging your career into the short 2-page format. It starts with the one-hour consultation on your new resume: $210 per hour up to GS-13 and $260 per hour GS-14 and up.
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, specialized knowledge, and sets the writing format and emphasis plan.
Keywords from a real announcement
The writer analyzes one target recruitment ad, builds 7 to 10 keyword phrases from it, and makes sure the resume covers them. Matching the resume to the ad is the point.
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.
The record
The record behind the service
Resume Place has been writing resumes since 1971, for the federal market and the private one. The discipline is the same; only the target changes.
THE CONSULTATION
It starts with one hour
The $210, or $260 for executives, one-hour consultation covers your new resume: the target position, the format, and your career objective. Your consultant quotes any writing before it begins.
Every service starts as an assessment with a Certified Resume Writer. If you want writing after the consult, professional writing services run $210 per hour up to GS-13 and $260 per hour GS-14 and up. We will start with the one-hour consultation and quote. Writing hours will be quoted based on your resume and target position. Book the consultation
Consultation services and pricing
Private industry consultation, $210
A one-hour review of your resume against private industry expectations: transferable skills that appeal to corporate recruiters, keyword recommendations for your target industry, content, style, length, and format, quantifiable accomplishments, and guidance on the multi-stage corporate interview process. Includes a marked-up resume, target keywords, and specific recommendations. Turnaround 1 to 3 business days.
Federal resume consultation (up to GS-13), $210
The federal resume consultation is comprehensive. We review your current resume and a target or real job announcement. We discuss the entire resume target, language, keywords, accomplishments. We tell you what is needed to change the resume. Our goal is to help you get Best Qualified for the position. And we will give you the quote for professional writing to create this important new resume for your career development.
SES 2-Page Federal Resume Consulting and Writing, $260
A one-hour consultation and teaching session about the new ECQs and the new 2-page SES resume. The resume is difficult to write and complex. All 5 of the ECQs must be covered with accomplishments. The MTQs must be covered. And your career history covering 10 years at least must be covered. This is a critical consultation for your SES application.
IN THEIR WORDS
Our writing goal is Best Qualified, Referred, Interviewed, and hopefully Selected!
Your resume and interview coaching worked too well! After more than a year of trying to get a federal job while working as a contractor, I was not even getting referrals. Now here I am turning down offers and second interviews for the choice of a GS 11, 12, 13 with an agency I want to work for. It’s not who you know, but how your resume shows what you know.
Choose your resume format and path
Transitioning from Federal to Private Industry
Your federal expertise, knowledge and successes ARE an asset for your private industry search. We can write it so that the recruiters understand the importance and the relevant skills!
Learn moreSenior Executive Resumes
The Federal executive resume features accomplishments, metrics, and the scope of your leadership.
Learn moreCareer Changers
Career Change CAN HAPPEN with careful translation of experiences, skills, accomplishments, and keywords. We are experts in career change resumes.
Learn moreTHE OTHER DIRECTION
Coming from private industry into federal?
Private industry professionals DO WANT Federal careers and we can help translate and develop your private industry experiences and accomplishments for executive federal careers. We do this all the time. We will talk about it and ask you questions that will relate to Federal leadership positions.
We analyze the qualifications of the target series, interview you about the transferable skills, and add the five to seven accomplishments that prove your past performance against the KSAs. Federal resume writing
Get started
Start with the one-hour consultation
A Certified Federal Resume Writer and Executive Resume Writer will review your documents and write the new resume for your next career.