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    <title>Kathryn Troutman - Federal Career Coach(r)</title>
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      <title>Tips for Cover Letters That Employers will Actually Read</title>
      <description>[unable to retrieve full-text content]Kathryn Troutman, April 14, 2026Keep It Short and to the Point:Writing Cover LettersThat Federal and Private Industry Employers Actually ReadWhether you are applying in the federal government or the private secto</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Happy Holidays from Resume Place, Inc. 2025</title>
      <description>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 n</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CFJST CFCC announcement for 2026</title>
      <description>By Kathryn TroutmanDecember 19 2025FIRST OF ALL, THE TEN STEPS CERTIFICATION CLASSES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERWITH THE REQUIRED 2-PAGE FEDERAL RESUME!REGISTER NOWTRAINING RATES ARE DISCOUNTED !2026 Certification Fees ? DISCOUNTED PRICES UNTIL FEB </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Press Release ? Transitioning Your Federal Resume to Private Industry</title>
      <description>Kathryn Troutman, Publisher, President, Resume Place, Inc.Career Expert Warns, Furloughed Federal WorkersFace Competition Crisis for Private Industry Jobs?Jobseekers? DIY resume efforts are creatingthe perfect storm for hiring failures.?notes Kathryn</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Veterans Day 2025 Webinars</title>
      <description>Author:?Kathryn Troutmanhttps://resume-place.com				In addition to her resume writing and coaching business, Troutman has written and published more than 30 successful books (including multiple editions) on Federal Resume Writing over the last 20 yea</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Time to Take Inventory</title>
      <description>Whether you?re contemplating your next career move or simply want to better understand your professional value, now is the perfect time to take a comprehensive inventory of your professional assets. Just as a business conducts regular inventory asses</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Top Tips for Federal Employees Transitioning to Private Industry Resumes</title>
      <description>Baltimore, MD, Kathryn Troutman, September 27, 2025. For federal employees who have opted into the?Deferred Resignation Program, the path ahead represents both an ending and a new beginning. While this transition marks the close of your federal servi</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Federal Resumes Limited to 2 Pages</title>
      <description>New guidance addresses critical challenge facing federal job seekers: How to condense comprehensive work histories into powerful, targeted applications that meet agency requirements and stand out to hiring officialsBALTIMORE, MD ? September 23, 2025?</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Federal Resume Guidebook, 8th Ed Is the Ultimate Introduction to New 2-Page Federal Resume</title>
      <description>As of September 29, all Federal resumes processed by USAJOBS will be limited to 2 pages per new OPM rules. This includes resumes stored in a job seeker?s profile, newly uploaded resumes, resume builder resumes, and searchable resumes in the Agency Ta</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:53:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Announcing the New Federal Resume Guidebook, 8th Ed</title>
      <description>Federal Resume Guidebook, 8th EdIs the Ultimate Introduction to New 2-Page Federal Resume(August 15, 2025) ? On May 29, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management issued a historic memo prohibiting the longform Federal resume, which could be 5, 10, eve</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>OPM announcement of new two page federal resume requirement</title>
      <description>June 10, 2025 ? Kathryn Troutman, President, Resume Place, Inc.To Federal Employees:Get ready everyone? for the biggest Federal Application Change since Reinvention Government in 1976 by VP Al Gore who said ?that the government should accept a resume</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Writing Short, Punchy Accomplishments in Two-Page Private Industry Resumes</title>
      <description>I recently started reading ?flash fiction,? a (sometimes?corny) literary genre where the writer tells a?compelling?story in a very short scope?perhaps a few hundred words or even just a line or two.?A favorite of mine is called ?Sticks? by George Sau</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Star Spangled Accomplishment for Independence Day</title>
      <description>Francis Scott Key?s ECQ CCARHappy Independence Day from Resume Place!July 3, 2025Originally written by Kathryn Troutman July 4th, 2010 from Baltimore, MD Kathryn is a frequent visitor of Ft. McHenry, her Favorite National Park.IntroductionHere at Res</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rare Federal Hiring Opportunities for Recent Graduates Amid Government Hiring Freeze</title>
      <description>Despite widespread?federal?cutbacks, valuable pathways still exist for new graduates seeking government careers.The Current Federal Employment ClimateIf you?ve been following the news about federal employment, you know the landscape has changed drama</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 14:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Condensing Decades of Leadership Commitment to Mission into a 2-Page Private Industry Resume</title>
      <description>Part of the dismay experienced by federal employees facing the untimely end of a productive career in public service is the realization that a brand-new type of resume is needed.How do you go about translating federal experience into expertise that p</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 08:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Navigating Federal Career Uncertainty: Essential New Resource</title>
      <description>New Guide Helps Federal Employees Transition to Private Sector?Transitioning Your Federal Resume to Private Industry?By Kathryn Troutman, AuthorBALTIMORE, MD ? April 28, 2025 ? Recent executive orders aimed at government workforce reduction have left</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 08:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Top Tips for Federal Employees Transitioning to Private Industry R?sum?s</title>
      <description>?Top Tips for Federal Employees Transitioning to Private Industry R?sum?sPreparationStart with what you have: Update your federal r?sum? with recent positions, dates, training, and education to use as reference material.Research job titles: Identify </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Resume Writing Book for Sudden Job Searches</title>
      <description>Baltimore, MDNew Book and Webinar for Federal Employees in Sudden and Needless, but Real Career Transition ? Transitioning Your Federal Resume to Private IndustryResume expert Kathryn Troutman teaches how to convert Federal resumes for success in pri</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FEDERAL EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY JOB BOOK</title>
      <description>Catonsville, MD, Kathryn TroutmanFEDERAL EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY JOB BOOK ? Transitioning Your Federal Resume to Private Industry by Kathryn Troutman, published by Resume Place, Inc., Catonsville, MDThe Print Books Are Here at Kathryn Troutman?s Warehouse</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Three-Part Career Change Webinar Series</title>
      <description>From Kathryn Troutman, President, Resume Place, Inc.Resume Place, Inc. is here to help you with your unexpected career change and new resume when ready. Our new book and webinars will get you going. We will show you how to look for jobs, analyze the </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cope with Threat of Trump Cuts/Webinars &amp; New Book Helping Federal Employees</title>
      <description>Resume Expert Kathryn Troutman teaches how to convert?Federal Resumes to achieve Private Industry attention through free webinars and new bookBaltimore, MD ? February 12, 2025. President Trump?s initiatives to trim government have placed many Federal</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:52:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CAREER CHANGE ? GOVERNMENT TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY: WRITING A TWO-PAGE PRIVATE INDUSTRY RESUME!</title>
      <description>BlogBased on President Trumps new initiatives? if you are considering transitioning to private sector, make sure you are prepared with a shorter (two-page) private industry resume that is targeted toward your next job.Your new private industry resume</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CAREER CHANGE ? GOVERNMENT TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY WRITING A TWO-PAGE PRIVATE INDUSTRY RESUME!</title>
      <description>BlogBased on President Trumps new initiatives? if you are considering transitioning to private sector make sure you are prepared with a shorter (two-page) private industry resume that is targeted toward your next job.Your new private industry resume </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BREAKING SES ECQ NEWS</title>
      <description>Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments, Independent Agencies,Inspectors General, and the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity andEfficiencyFrom: Robert H. Shriver, III Acting DirectorSubject: Update of the Senior Executive Service Ex</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>2025 is The Year to Get Promoted or Get Hired in Government Are you Determined and Persevering to Make This Happen?</title>
      <description>TOP TIPS TO MASTER 2025 USAJOBS APPLICATIONSUse the OUTLINE FORMAT for your federal resume so that the keywords from the announcement stand out for the ?human? human resources specialists to see.? This is your best chance to be rated Best Qualified.U</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>HAPPY HOLIDAYS and HAPPY NEW YEAR</title>
      <description>2025 is going to be a big year for Federal Resume Writing and Senior Executive Service applications!?Resume Place, Inc. Trainers, Coaches, Writers, and Editors are here to help you achieve your federal career objectives.Federal Career Publications:Ne</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Veterans Day 2024 ? Ten Steps to a Federal Job? FREE Virtual class</title>
      <description>To help you continue your dedicated service to America, we would like to give you our best advice,?FREE, on how to begin a successful, rewarding career in the Federal Government as a Civil Service Employee. The Federal Resume is a vastly different do</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Presidential Appointments 2024</title>
      <description>The 2024 presidential candidates? policy positions are so different that a one-size-fits-all application for the Presidential Appointee positions will be unsuccessful, according to The Resume Place. Aspirants must customize their resume and cover let</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kathryn Troutman Honored with Woman-Owned Business Moxie Award</title>
      <description>On October 24, Kathryn Troutman received the Moxie Award in the coveted Woman-Owned Business category for 2024. Troutman was one of only 17 category winners awarded during the event held at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. The Moxies have</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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