December 24, 2025, Happy Holidays from Kathryn Troutman and Resume Place, Inc. Resume Place writers and trainers wish you a wonderful holiday season with your family and friends.
Time to let all of the challenges of 2025 go by and look forward to a new year for your career.
Kathryn Troutman and the Resume Place writing team wrote and published four books, including one new book and three major book updates to help Federal employees write the new 2-page Federal resume.
Kathryn taught at least 25 free one-hour webinars to help everyone in this emergency 2-page resume change. Now Kathryn will teach the new 2-Page SES resume. NOTE: The former SES application was an average of 21 pages!.
TIP: Don’t wait until you see a good job announcement to write your new
2-page federal resume. This resume format and reduction of content are more than challenging!
The big 2025 lessons for your resume are:
- Format – which 2-page format is best for your career, skills, and accomplishments?
- Keywords – AI methods – Keywords are critical, make a list and use them in the 2-Page Resume
- Accomplishments – time to stand out with your best 3 to 5 accomplishment stories (add metrics) – with more competition than ever
- Methods to reduce long resume descriptions into short, more specific duties (emphasize the last ten years of experience)
- USAJOBS builder vs. resume upload decision!
This week, take a break and focus on YOU and YOUR FAMILY. Have some fun, rest, and think positively about 2026.
Best Wishes !
Kathryn Troutman, President, Resume Place, Inc.
More free webinars coming up!
2-Page Federal Resume Writing Books – all 2025 PublicationsKathryn Troutman, Author and Publisher
Author Kathryn Troutman has written and published more than 30 successful books on Federal Resume Writing over the last 20 years, becoming the No. 1 Author of Federal-resume books. Her firm, Resume Place, has provided resume and career support to Federal workers for over 30 years. A lively and informative media guest, Troutman regularly answers questions about Federal employment. More on the book, webinars, Troutman and consults at www.resume-place.com.