Already proven to be successful and in compliance with federal agencies’ condensed SES application, our signature interview-winning five-page SES resumes sail through the hiring screening and address your executive leadership, accomplishments, and core competencies. Our new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for developing SES applications hits all best practices and leaves no stones unturned.
This type of SES federal resume writing is the hardest to write because of its content and character-count restraints that include your career history and mini-ECQs (as we call them) in the Challenge-Context-Action-Result (CCAR) model. Many SES vacancy announcements require Technical Qualifications to be addressed within the five pages, as well.
We encourage you to read all vacancy announcements carefully as many agencies require the full set of ECQs that are up to 10 pages in length. Many of our clients select a five-page SES Resume, along with a full set of ECQs as their “master copy” in preparation for SES vacancy openings in the future. It’s absolutely essential that you are prepared for an opening.
Our quality controlled process ensures no stones are left unturned in the development, process, and delivery of your SES application.
Our signature five-page SES Resume–as we have named this application–would appear to be much simpler to develop. However, the fact is that a comprehensive, space-limited federal resume is actually much more complex and time-consuming to develop. Each ECQ (mini-ECQ) and TQ (mini-TQ) is required to be drilled down to 250-300 words or less.
While most agencies still require the traditional SES resume and full set of ECQs, there are many agencies that prefer the drilled-down five-page SES ECQ-based resume version for the initial application, but if a candidate is selected for the SES position, we find some agencies still request the full set of ECQs.
The traditional SES resume is written totally with your leadership competencies at the forefront. We incorporate all best practices to include presentation, executive language, scope of experience, technical skills, and, most importantly, your accomplishments. Our SES resumes are extremely popular and well-accepted within federal agencies, leading our clients to interview. Our staff proofreaders and editors carefully glean over the completed copy for extra value-added service to our clients.
The Five-Page SES ECQ Based Resume will include your executive leadership experience and accomplishments. Additionally, the five ECQs are addressed where appropriate throughout the resume identifying mini-ECQ stories.
A five-page SES resume and up to 10 pages of ECQ documentation. The 28 executive core competencies are required to be addressed throughout each respective ECQ, in addition to TQs, if required. The ECQs are developed in the CCAR model.
A four-page SES resume with cover letter or omitted cover letter and extending resume to five pages. ECQs are replaced with federal agency’s selection of five executive competencies, such as: Strategic Vision, Resilience, Leadership, Coalition Building, and Human Capital Management, and/or can be replaced by others selected by the hiring agency.
USAJobs SES resumes allowing 5,000 characters per job with ECQs entered online with character limits of 4,000 to 8,000 characters. The ECQs are developed in the CCAR model.
It is imperative that you read each SES application in its entirety prior to writing your package. Different agencies sometimes change requirements from fax and email to mail-in only, as well as SES resume page length, ECQ character count, and font and margins requirements. Any application submission that deviates from what is requested on the specific vacancy announcement will most likely be rejected.
We will provide a no-cost career consult to determine the type of resume and level of composition and presentation. Then we will relay a customized quote based on your requirements and goals. Finally, with your agreement, we will assign one of our Master Senior Executive Writers to work with you in developing your presentation.
