Friday, September 3rd, 2010

I have posted several articles about writing great KSAs. This particular writing will give you some specific action verbs, nouns and descriptors you can incorporate into your writing as you build and develop your great KSAs otherwise known as knowledge skills and abilities.
The foremost purpose of writing great KSAs is to distinguish YOU as the [...]

Below are four distinctly different examples of great KSAs. Writing great KSAs is about demonstrating your specific expertise in the functional areas requested in the vacancy announcement. As I have stated in other posts about writing great KSAs, it is an exercise in writing and one you can masterfully demonstrate by spending quality [...]

Words are amazing and powerful and a writer, just like a magician with his props who performs amazing and memorizing feats seemingly impossible or a fisherman with his tried and true lures for reeling in the big one, writers rely on a wide assortment of literary contrivances to amaze and reel-in their audience. Writers [...]

Given today’s economic climate and the growing uncertainty within our own economy, I find many people who are looking for security, stability and longevity. Generally speaking a career in the civil service provides those things along with great health benefits and also opportunities for a pension after retirement. It also provides the opportunity to [...]

I was inspired to write today when I stumbled upon this quote by Stephen R. Covey.
“You can change. You can live out of your imagination instead of your memory. You can tie yourself to your limitless potential instead of your limiting past.”
— Stephen R. Covey
That statement is profoundly enlightening and authenticates my own fundamental belief [...]

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 [...]