Transitioning Your Federal Resume to Private Industry

In February 2025, 2 million Federal employees received an email from the Office of Personnel Management and the White House inviting them to accept Deferred Resignation by February 6, 2025, with 8 months of salary for them to leave the government voluntarily. More than 20,000 Federal employees accepted the offer and they needed to write a private-industry resume to continue their careers.

Transitioning Your Federal Resume to Private Industry is a Federal Resume to Private Industry Resume book. A self-help book to navigate private industry job search with a short resume and cover letter. Samples of both Federal resumes converted to private industry resumes by the leading expert on Federal resume writing in America. Kathryn Troutman can help Federal employees land on their feet with a new career in Private industry.

About the Author

Kathryn Troutman is an American author, consultant, and career trainer who assists jobseekers interested in working for the U.S. government. She is the founder and president of The Resume Place, Inc. (est. 1971), a service business located in Baltimore, MD, that consults on, writes, and designs federal resumes. Troutman has been presented in the media as an expert on the Federal resume, Senior Executive Service applications, and Federal career consulting in general. She has published nine books on these subjects and is known in Federal hiring circles as the “Federal Resume Guru.” In 1995, as the U.S. government began phasing out the very long Standard Form 171, Troutman wrote The Federal Resume Guidebook, the first ever book on how to write a Federal resume. The Federal Resume Guidebook is now in its 7th edition. Other Troutman career publications include the Jobseeker’s Guide: How to Land Government Jobs for Military and Spouses, now in its 9th edition. The Stars Are Lined Up for Military Spouses, 2nd edition, was selected for Best Military Nonfiction in the Independent Press Awards 2020.