Description
On May 29, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management sent a memo to 2 million federal employees telling them that a 2-page federal resume is now required, instead of the long-form, which could be 5 to 20 pages.
The 8th edition of Federal Resume Guidebook contains 14 excerpts of Outline Format federal resumes. This edition also features 28 full samples of 2-page federal resumes. All the outline format resumes from the previous edition have been transformed into the new 2-page Skills-Based, Searchable Federal Resume format.
The 2-page Federal Resume samples include various formats for federal employees seeking promotion, career change, wage grade (trades), IT / Technical and SES.
This book is a necessary text for any Federal employee or anyone who wants a federal job. The samples are invaluable, they match the USAJOBS requirements and teach the applicant how to match the USAJOBS announcement.
The 2-page federal resume is so dramatically different than the previous long form, there is significant challenges for serious federal applicants. The samples in the book will dramatically help anyone who needs to condense many pages into 2 pages that are targeted, impressive and compliant with the USAJOBS requirements.
About the Author
Kathryn Troutman is from Baltimore, Maryland and founded the Resume Place, the United States’ first Federal resume writing and coaching business, more than 30 years ago. She is the pioneering designer of the Federal Resume format, created after the Federal government eliminated the SF-171 form in 1995. Kathryn wrote the first-ever book on writing the Federal-style resume – Federal Resume Guidebook in 1995.
With Kathryn’s team of 20 Certified Federal Resume Writers, the Resume Place now advises and writes more than 300 Federal resumes per month for military, private industry and Federal clients worldwide. Her Resume Place SES writers have written and consulted on Senior Executive Service ECQs with a 95% success rate over the last five years for the Veterans Administration and Veterans Executive Review Board.
