Seeking Federal Employment and Writing Great KSAs

Do you want a job with the federal government?  Many people do, it’s a great career choice and one that can provide lasting stability, advancement, and personal and professional reward.  I am currently an employee for the US Department of Homeland Security.  I can’t go into specifics regarding what I do for the Agency, but I have found it to be a personally gratifying and rewarding experience to be able to serve my county in this capacity. Read more

Resumes Moving From “Fair” To “Flair”

One of the lessons I have always tried to teach both of my children, most times with great difficulty, is that “life is not fair…get used to it.” I want to illustrate and expound upon this simple lesson today and point it in a direction we can expressly apply to our approach to writing resumes. Read more

Developing Your Writing Style

For those of you who read my very long, first post about the history of what inspired me to start the-write-biz.com, I thought I would go ahead and layout some ideas you can use to nurture and develop your style of writing. Read more

Making Choices and Committing To Them

I spent the evening perusing various titles at one of the local bookstores tonight with a very good friend. Interestingly enough, we both share a commonality in the sort of books we enjoy reading. Not fictional, biographical, home or gardening, but those of self-improvement. No matter how hard I try, I can never, or I should say rarely, read just for the pure entertainment of reading. I always gravitate to the very spiritual, or to titles involving self discovery, understanding, or really boring books about economic globalization and politics, but that’s for another day. Read more